{"id":185379,"date":"2011-07-15T12:21:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-15T17:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/07\/15\/yiddish-its-not-for-blithering-idiots\/"},"modified":"2011-07-15T12:21:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T17:21:00","slug":"yiddish-its-not-for-blithering-idiots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/07\/15\/yiddish-its-not-for-blithering-idiots\/","title":{"rendered":"Yiddish It&#8217;s Not for Blithering Idiots\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 400px;\"><object height=\"252\" width=\"390\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/9_mWlXvKnq8?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/9_mWlXvKnq8?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"390\" height=\"252\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">So not a Yid!<\/span><\/div>\n<p>It is pronounced &#8220;Hoot&#8221; (same vowel sound as book) &#8220;Spah&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not pronounced <i><b>chute-spa<\/b><\/i>!<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t expect her to get the guttural &#8220;h&#8221;, she is, after all a gentile, a Minnesotan, and a Lutheran,<sup>*<\/sup> so she has at best limited experience in that consonant, but seriously, don&#8217;t speak Yiddish unless you understand Yiddish.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d call her a schmuck, but a schmuck has a head.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Specifically, the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS), which is arguably the most <a href=\"http:\/\/dovbear.blogspot.com\/2011\/07\/michelle-bachman-has-reverend-wright.html\">antisemitic<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2011\/07\/14\/bachmanns-former-church_n_899353.html\">anti-Catholic<\/a> Lutheran sect in the united states.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So not a Yid! It is pronounced &#8220;Hoot&#8221; (same vowel sound as book) &#8220;Spah&#8221;. It&#8217;s not pronounced chute-spa! I don&#8217;t expect her to get the guttural &#8220;h&#8221;, she is, after all a gentile, a Minnesotan, and a Lutheran,* so she has at best limited experience in that consonant, but seriously, don&#8217;t speak Yiddish unless you &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1130,978,1021,982,1027],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-politics","category-religion","category-stupid","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185379"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}