Re: [Cz-L] CURSES

My parents used the expression "es sol mir sein far dir" not in the same sense as "auf mir gesugt" which is generally a saying of envy. They used it to mean, that anything bad should happen to them rather than to their children.
Frieda


--- On Sun, 7/13/08, Miriam Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu> wrote:

> From: Miriam Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Cz-L] CURSES
> To: "HARDY BREIER" <HARDY3_at_bezeqint.net>, "Czernowitz" <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
> Date: Sunday, July 13, 2008, 9:47 AM
> Miriam (Mimi) Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
>
> > Soll mir sein far dir. ( I should get it instead of
> you).
> Is not a curse, it is a saying of envy.
> Similarly there was: AUF MIR GESUGT - let it be said of me.
> A generous person would have said: AUF ISN GESUGT.
>
> Mimi
>

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