Someone asked me off line to give a reference for the Yiddish post.
This is the site I used:
http://www.sbjf.org/sbjco/schmaltz/yiddish_phrases.htm
What a fantastic language! Now, for those who care, you can translate
the Jewish mother rant I laid on Rory. Sorry in advance to anyone who
cares
I told you before you were a gifted writer. Yiddish is easy for someone who
speaks German. Superb Yiddish rant. I love the word verklempt especially.
It comes from the German, beklemmt. which means fearful, or anxious, but
the literal image or metaphor that it houses is clamped down. And
