Re: [Cz-L] Toigen zim Tuches .

Again I disagree. We were neither positive nor vulgar.
If someone was not good at doing anything, we said:
"Er ken nisht der katz den shwantz ziebinden"
This makes no sense whatever, because it means: He cannot even tie on the
tail of a cat. I would be amazed if anyone could.

Not only were we not positive, we found it hard to say anything positive
about anyone. For instance: If a woman cleaned her house in the evening, we
said: Wenn werd a shlimesalnetzeh recht? Oif der nacht.
(When does a bad housewife become industrious? At night.

Mimi

On 9/26/10 1:16 PM, "HARDY BREIER" <HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET> wrote:

> Yiddish : the languge of the positive .
> If someone is a Pfutscher , a bungler than he is a "Kalike ".
> But if he is a no good in every way, does nothing right then
> the Czernowitzer uses the positive : "Er toigt zim Tuches".
> From the German "taugen " fit. "Untauglich" then is unusable , not fit.
> "Tuches "is the butt .
> So if somebody is a complete disaster ,two left hands , then he
> toigt zim Tuches. Always think and speak positive !
> The English -Americans have it too : "Good for nothing". Less
> explicit.
> Must have taken it from the Yiddish but prude as they are they
> miss the essence.
> Hardy
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