Jewish as a Second Language: How to Worry, How to Interrupt, How to Say the Opposite of What You Mean
Autor Molly Katz Ilustrat de Jeff Mooresen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 mar 2010
Written to help her Gentile husband and others like him who fall for believing a Jewish mother-in-law when she says, "Don't bother driving me, I'll take a cab," "Jewish as a Second Language" shows how to be one of the family how to worry, how to interrupt, how to change your hotel room. It's not Yiddish. Though non-Jews can endear themselves by learning how to mis-use words like "schmendrick" and "schmatta" providing both laughs and confirmation of Jewish superiority this Jewish language is about the complex twists and somersaults of everyday speech, of unexpected nuances, hidden meanings, and swampy thickets of behavior, of wins, losses, and draws in competitions you never knew you entered. It's about the most common OAQs (obsessive anal questions): "This mole looks okay, doesn't it?" "Can Saltines go bad?" "They'll de-ice the wings before takeoff, right?" The Four Basic Shrugs. Acronyms never to use again: NASCAR, STD, and MRSA ("Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus," the potentially deadly skin virus that s spread by contact, and also by talking about it casually). The things non-Jews do for fun and what Jews do: Contra dance/Contradict, Read the comics/Read the obituaries, Get your boobs done/Get your taxes done. Stuff never found in a Jewish home (trout flies, a lineoleum knife, a Lay-Z-Boy, a rottweiler) or mouth (Miracle Whip, marshmallow fluff, Bud).
So you'll sit, you'll read, you'll laugh until you're nauseous. It's a nice book.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780761158400
ISBN-10: 0761158405
Pagini: 182
Dimensiuni: 132 x 188 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Ediția:Expanded
Editura: Workman Publishing
ISBN-10: 0761158405
Pagini: 182
Dimensiuni: 132 x 188 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Ediția:Expanded
Editura: Workman Publishing
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Forget Yiddish. Real Jewish is a secret language of nuance, argument, and somersaults of everyday speech; of wins, losses, and draws in competitions you had no idea you d entered. It s everything from mastering the OAQ (Obsessive Anal Question) They ll de-ice the wings before takeoff right? to never, ever believing your mother-in-law when she says, Don t bother driving me, I ll take a cab. Now in a revised and expanded second edition that s bigger, better, and with more guilt, this is the indispensable guide.
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In this completely revised, updated, and expanded second edition of "Jewish as a Second Language," Katz shows how to worry, interrupt, and say the opposite of what one means.