So is _your_ ignorance of the Yiddish vernacular
I stand corrected, However, most people in this country don't speak
Yiddish. I think you threw us all a curveball.
Michael Thames
Luthier
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Matanya Ophee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 10:44 PM
Subject: Re: Vance's hypocricy
> At 09:02 PM 12/11/2003 -0600, Michael Thames <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> >Vance, Manyna wrote this,to Roman.
> >
> > Somehow I suspect that you will be able to resist the urge=20
> >to attack me, once you get more of that second-hand whiff of wind... see
=
> >
> >you later, boychik.
>
> Actually, what I mean to say is "I suspect that you will _not_ be able to
> resist the urge..." Thank you for allowing me to make the correction.
>
> > Now here, is a MO sighting where he clearly insults gays, by =
> >calling Roman a "boychik" and I'll translate that for you, it means =
> >Faggot.
>
> It is? not in _my_ Yiddish dictionary it ain't. This is one of those
> instances where Yiddish soaks up the local vernacular. My grandmother,
> who's never been to Brooklyn, used to call me, when I was about yea big,
in
> her best Minskian Yiddish, a schmendrechik. Boychik is a Brooklyn
Yidishism
> which indicates a very young boy. Period. There is nothing about sexual
> orientation in the term.
>
> > This is not some kind of dreamed up theory, like my case. MO =
> >actually said it!
>
> Of course I did. My purpose in saying this carefully calculated put down
> was to indicate to Roman that he is still wet behind the ears, and there
is
> much for him to learn before he gets to my place. It has nothing to do
with
> his sexual orientation. As far as I know he is a married man with a wife
> and two kids.
>
> > Now I would have thought that you would burn him at =
> >the stake for that one Dudley, but it seems your hypocrisy knows no =
> bounds.
>
>
>
> So is _your_ ignorance of the Yiddish vernacular.
>
>
> Matanya Ophee
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