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Posted by dorayme on 03/23/06 03:48
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<Pine.LNX.4.62.0603230131140.32471@ppepc55.ph.gla.ac.uk>,
"Alan J. Flavell" <flavell@physics.gla.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, Neredbojias enquired:
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> > Do you know what "schmuck" really means?
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> In Yiddish? As a matter of fact, yes, I do; but if I didn't,
> a few moments with a search engine would suffice to remedy that.
I doubt it. If you follow the way folks who break for lawn deer,
you get one thing... if you just average Google, you get another.
In the end, you can't easily get this stuff from reading defns.
You have to feel it. Yes, you have to be self-conscious enough to
know one's own inner schmuck in order to recognise that in others.
--
dorayme
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