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Edward E. Jaffe said the following on 11/21/2005 06:06 PM:
|> but it appears that it is actually Yiddish.
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| It is Yiddish: spelled and pronounced "Schlemozzle".
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The German derivative is Schlamassel, = mishap, bad luck.
When I started in my first sysprog (wannebe, rookie) position some 30 years
ago, comming directly from sheltered life at the university, after the end
of the first week I thought "In was fuer einen Schlamassel bist Du denn da
geraten ?!" (In what kind of a schlemozzle did you get yourself this time ?!"
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