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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">From: <span class="gd"><span style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">Roger Thijs, Euro-Support, Inc.</span></span><span class="gi"> </span><span class="go"><<a href="mailto:roger.thijs@euro-support.be">roger.thijs@euro-support.be</a>></span><br>
Subject: <span class="gi">LL-L Language varieties</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">Tuesday I had lunch in an
small restaurant in Edison NJ., called "Harold's New York".</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">It is in the Holiday Inn
Hotel building at the crossing of the motorways.</p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">On the napkin one finds some
instructions:</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">"How to speak
Deli"</p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">CHUTZPAH: NERVE. "It
takes a lot of chutzpah to think you can finish a sandwich at Harold's".</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">EMMESS: THE TRUTH: "We
serve the best food anywhere, that is the emmess."</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">FORSHPEIS: (also NOSH) AN
APPETIZER. "Try some kasha varnishkas as forshpeis"</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">FRESSER: A BIG EATER:
"A fresser never takes a doggie-bag home from Harold's"</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">MACHER: A BIG SHOT: "At
Harold's everyone is a macher."</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">MESHPUCHAH: FAMILY.
"Bring your whole mespuchah to Harold's for a great meal."</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">MESHUGENNAH: CRAZY. "If
you don't love Harold's food, you are meshugennah."</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">NEBBISH: A NERD. Even a
nebbish loves to eat at Harold's."</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">SCHLEMIEL: see Nebbish</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">SCHLEPP: TO CARRY OR HAUL.
"Schlepp home a sandwich from Harold's for your meshpuchah."</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">SCHMATAH: RAG. "Ik you
spill your Dr. Brown's we'll whipe it up with a schmatah."</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">SCMUTZ; DIRT. "You
won't find any schmutz at Harold's."</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">SCHTARKER.: A STRONG PERSON.
"To schlepp home a Harold's sandwich, you have to be a schtarker."</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">SCHTICKLUCH. HABIT.
"Eating at Harold's will become a schtichluch."</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">SPILKAS: ANTS-IN-THE-PANTS:
"When you wait for a take-out order at Harold's you never get
spilkas."</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">PUNAM: FACE. "When you
eat at Harold's you'll have a happy punam."</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">MACHATUNIM: YOUR CHILDREN'S
IN-LAWS. (OR, THE ENNEMY). "You will even have a good time with your
machatunim at Harold's".</p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">One finds more
"deli" vocabulary on the menu. It is accessible on their website: <a href="http://www.haroldsfamousdeli.com/" target="_blank">http://www.haroldsfamousdeli.com/</a></p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">They have no salad bar but
the largest "pickle bar of the world" with a variety of cucumbers
etc.</p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">The food is fast-food type.
You hardly open your napkin for starting to read the vocabulary instruction, or
your plate is already on your table.</p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">I returned through Pennsylvania with an intention to have a stop at the
"King of Prussia Mall" (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_of_Prussia_Mall" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_of_Prussia_Mall</a>),
but, since it started snowing, I didn't stop and continued my way to Northern Wilmington.</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">The events I had registered
for today have been canceled because of the snow. When looking to our paking
lot, I see all cars are packed all sides and roof with a cover of 1" to
2" of snow. It stopped snowing though and I will probably go downtown Wilmington when the roads
are less slippery later today. After all it is not that bad, we have had more
of that in Europe, but the TV stations over
here are screwing up the "winter storm".</p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">Regards,</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">Roger</p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">From: <span class="gd"><span style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">Roger Thijs, Euro-Support, Inc.</span></span><span class="gi"> </span><span class="go"><<a href="mailto:roger.thijs@euro-support.be">roger.thijs@euro-support.be</a>></span><br>
Subject: <span class="gi">LL-L Language varieties</span></p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">Addendum to:</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><b>> Sent:</b> Wednesday, January 12, 2011 11:09 AM</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"><b>> Subject:</b> LL-L Language varieties</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">> ... When looking to our
paking lot, I see all cars are packed all sides and roof with a cover of 1"
to 2" of snow.</p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">I underestimated when
looking from my room window.</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">I had 5" on the roof
and 2" all around on the doors.</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">It toke me half an hour for
getting the car OK.</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">Driving with snow on the
roof is not allowed in certain states, at least not in Pennsylvania, so I heard on TV this morning</p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">Regards,</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">Roger</p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal"> </p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none;">sassisch@yahoo.com</span></a>></p>
<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">Subject: Travels</p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">Thanks for the travel
reports, Roger. I hope things will keep going smoothly.</p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">For those who are not
familiar with this, the type of “deli” (< “delicatessen”) Roger is talking
about is also known as “New York
deli,” “kosher deli” or “Jewish deli.” There are other styles of deli, but in New York City the default
meaning of “deli” is just that. These are eateries that started off as ethnic
food stores that also served lighter, informal eating. Not all of them are
small. Some have become real institutions and their meals are not
necessarily small or light. Much of
the food served has Ashkenazi Jewish roots, though many of those were invented or
further developed in North America. Some of them
are not specific to Jewish cuisine but have been made popular by Jews in America
and are thus considered Jewish. An example of it is pastrami, derived from Yiddish
<i>pastrome</i> (פּאַסטראָמע<span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span><span dir="LTR"></span>) which goes
back to Romanian <i>pastramă</i>.</p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">The vocabulary Roger shared is
Yinglish, a type of Yiddish-influenced English.</p>
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<p style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="MsoNormal">Regards,<br>
Reinhard/Ron<br>
Seattle, USA</p>
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