At 6:19 PM -0400 10/6/06, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote:
...
Nicely defined here:
<http://www.yiddishdictionaryonline.com/dictionary/display.php?action=search&type=rom&word=farkakte>
...
Oops...
After a quick scan of subject lines I was ready to opine about Bakelite...
Never mind...
But thanks for the link.
Now I can get my goy* mind around all the Yiddish slang in the F.
Paul Wilson "Repairman Jack" novels and Paul Levine's "Solomon vs.
Lord" stuff (and maybe the "Lassiter" books, but I haven't gotten to
them yet).
Thanks again and best wishes,
-=-Dennis
* I can't say I'm too happy that golem is apparently a variation of
goylem ("dummy, an artificial human"), and that goylem is obviously
derived from goy (as is meshugener).
Ouch!
I'd feel better about that if I was eight feet tall and made of
hard-fired clay... ;-)
Though, if I read both <http://www.pitt.edu/~dash/golem.html> and
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Mesopotamian_units_of_measurement>
right, the original golem was about half-again as long as a cigarette.
Huh??
.
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