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Who else gets a little irked by these expressions? I don’t look down in any way on the people who use them c”v,I just cringe a little from the words themselves….
Let’s listen in….
“Good Shabbos, putchkie, did you make this bilky in school? Put it with Mommy’s challies, ok? Which chicken do you want, the pulkie? The pipikel? No, you can’t have a scrambled eggy, it’s Shabbos, putckie-mutchkie, okaaaaaaay? Oh the baby is so cute, kinaynihora,poo-poo-poo, look at those gezunte pulkies!!”etc.
I’m really not a snob at all, it just irks me, I don’t know why.
you can’t have a scrambled eggy Because you need to save these eggs to throw them on Halloween.
& even if you don’t throw eggs, so many other people will, that there could be a serious shortage of eggs by the next morning.
Maybe this is the vestiges of the old-time Ashkenazic Yiddish pronunciation that you see among some old-timers.
I work in a shul where most people are older American Jews, and they call challah “challie.” Many of them on sukkot would talk about sitting in the “sukkie.” When chicken legs are served, they’re called “pulkies.” This may be a cultural thing.
Kinaynahora, I’ve heard people say “eggy” and “challie” before. It’s gevaldic how people talk this way! My mommy and totty made sure to be mechanech me good English since I was a little feigaleh/bubbaleh/mammaleh/rugelach.
And my absolute worst is: Let’s go take a boodie kinderlach….
When I saw the title of the thread, I thought it was going to be about a Yiddish comic strip, starring those three as title characters. (Please somebody do it!)
I didn’t know what a boodie was, until I was doing chesed by somebody’s house last year and she asked if I would give her kids a boodie, and I said something along the lines of “sure, WHAT?!” And so i received an education. Baruch Hashem. 😀
Eclipse, if I’m not mistaken, you made a thread (long ago) about words your family made up.
@Wallflower – +1,000,000,000 kainaynahora! 😛
Someone please enlighten me. I don’t chap what is a boodie.
“Fleischie”
Bookworm120
A boodie is a bath.
I’ve always said “fleishig” if I wasn’t going to say “meat.” I have, however, heard people say “meaty,” in addition to “milky.” Hearing adults speak like that can be pretty awkward, I’ll admit! 😛
this thread is making me want to pukie
goq- + 1,000,000
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its half yiddish half babytalk.. the mame loooshin.. like shprach
Why do you look down at snobs? Some of my best friends are snobs and I don’t look down at them.
Torah
But they probably look down on you!
Passie is short for pacifier not a Jewish word.
tzumi,shlufi.zitzy.cribby,betty
This whole thread is more than bit kooky.
I once read somewhere that its bad to do this. It hampers the child’slanguage development.
And Bookworm120, “milky” and “meaty” are the way that the British – adults and children alike – refer to fleishigs and milchigs. It’s a cultural thing.
WIY- Was that in Baby Island? In that book, the parents wanted their kid to be spoken to like an adult, and the kid only ended up learning to speak when it was spoken to in baby language… It seems like in every culture babies are spoken to differently, and I’d assume it’s for a reason.
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