FW: [Cz-L] Toigen zim Tuches .

From: karlmetsch_at_msn.com
To: hardy3_at_bezeqint.net=3B mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu
Subject: RE: [Cz-L] Toigen zim Tuches .
Date: Mon=2C 27 Sep 2010 13:39:08 -0400

Also=2C least we forget " a gelehmter terk "
                            " tam a yoibel "
                            " di toigst far gurnischt "
I still think Omama was a saint and I was lucky to have her
Carlos =20
=20
> From: HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET
> To: mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu=3B Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu
> Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Toigen zim Tuches .
> Date: Mon=2C 27 Sep 2010 04:43:41 +0200
>=20
> Mimi=2C
> Was this a characteristic of all the Jews of Czernowitz ?
> Not vulgar and not positive ?
> Hardy
> ----- Original Message -----=20
> From: "Miriam Taylor" <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
> To: "HARDY BREIER" <HARDY3_at_bezeqint.net>=3B <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
> Sent: Monday=2C September 27=2C 2010 12:44 AM
> Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Toigen zim Tuches .
>=20
>=20
> > Again I disagree. We were neither positive nor vulgar.
> > If someone was not good at doing anything=2C we said:
> > "Er ken nisht der katz den shwantz ziebinden"
> > This makes no sense whatever=2C 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=2C we found it hard to say anything posit=
ive
> > about anyone. For instance: If a woman cleaned her house in the evening=
=2C=20
> > we
> > said: Wenn werd a shlimesalnetzeh recht? Oif der nacht.
> > (When does a bad housewife become industrious? At night.
> >
> > Mimi
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