stup

[Nadja Adolf]

No, I do not work for a "Jewish" firm; I work for a politically correct
firm.
I don't see how anyone could bar or bat mitzvah a business. B^)

(We do have Jewish people living here; they include an Israeli woman and
formerly included an Chassidic man. You should have seen the double takes
when people first saw the photo on his desk - not wife, not child - but his
rabbi! (I had to bite my tongue to avoid making jokes about people's double
takes - like, of course that's a rabbi. It's Italian women who have the
beards.))

Anyway, which word does stup rhyme with?

nadja

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Cleven [mailto:ironmtn at bigfoot.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2000 1:47 PM
> To: CHINOOK at listserv.linguistlist.org
> Subject: Re: stup
>
>
> Nadja Adolf wrote:
> >
> > So la chauffe is a heating stove?
>
> _Can_ be a heating stove; it simply means "the heat" or "the heater";
> but in a small cabin that's the same thing you make your breakfast and
> coffee on.  It's not "proper French" and if it ever meant precisely a
> "stove" it was a result of a localized slang amongst the guys I knew.
> But like mahsh and huyhuy and other misappropriations from
> not-quite-French it might be workable; it _sounds_ Jargon-ish, anyway.
> As discussed on my New Jargon page (I think it's
> cheewawa.html within my
> http://members.home.net/skookum/ directory) I think finding new
> borrowings, accurate or not, from English or French is a
> perfectly good
> way to come up with new Jargonisms; I'm not talking about loan words,
> but rather words that have been adapted, and maybe also mangled in
> meaning on the way into the "New Jargon".
>
> >
> > If it's shtop (rhymes with stop) or "Shtope" (rhymes
> > with rope) I could probably get away with it.
>
> > If it's shtup (rhymes with stoop) it could get me
> > fired if someone heard me on the phone!
>
> You work for a Jewish firm, perhaps?
>
> Actually, as with my post about invective (insults), maybe we'd better
> come up with a Jargonism for this particular bodily activity.  I think
> Tony J commented that "mamook" in the long form means you-know-what in
> GR Wawa, which is why they prefer "munk"; this is going to be
> endlessly
> confusing for non-GR Jargon people though (such few as they are).  Of
> course in English, as in other languages, to "do" someone can have a
> sexual meaning; also one of violence, or even of doing business or
> otherwise meeting the person.  Maybe we could coin a borrowing from
> Spanish that "changes" in the borrowing so it's not recognizably from
> the obscenity; e.g. "ching-ching" or "mamook ching-ching" from
> "chingar".  Or maybe like "hooch" we could determine that
> "hootchy-kootchy" may be of Jargon origin (?!?!?!?!), in which case
> we've _already_ got the borrowing.  Even if it's not Jargon,
> I think it
> would "fit", especially when combined with "mamook" or even
> "mahsh".  A
> scandalous tone could be conveyed by "hanky-panky"; both terms have a
> nice 19th C. ring to them as well......
>
> Mike Cleven
> http://members.home.net/skookum/
> http://members.home.net/cayoosh/
>