Posted by dorayme on 03/19/06 03:17

In article <d3eue3-8rh.ln1@ophelia.g5n.co.uk>,
Toby Inkster <usenet200603@tobyinkster.co.uk> wrote:

> saz wrote:
> > doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au says:
> >
> >> Jesus talks about poor schmucks (but perhaps not in these
> >> terms... although.... although.... when one thinks about it... He
> >> was Jewish! And who knows what He said off camera?)
> >
> > I'm not sure exactly what that was all about, but are you slamming Jews?
>
> I don't think so. I think dorayme meant that the word "schmuck" is
> Yiddish, so may have been a word that Jesus might have used, being Jewish.
>
> That said, although it has some Hebrew influence, Yiddish actually has
> Germanic roots, and split from mainstream German in about the 13th century
> -- well after the time that Christ may have contemplated the cause of
> schmucks.
>
> The primary Jewish language 2000 years ago was, and still is today, Hebrew.
>
> That said, I don't think dorayme was being entirely serious.

No, I don't think he or she was either...

(

Talking about schmucks, surely here is a good ostensive
definition:

The person who made grey print on grey background at
http://onegoodmove.org/1gm/1gmarchive/cat_chess.html

)

--
dorayme

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