Hi Martin, did you ever see the biopic about Lenny
Bruce years ago? There's a scene whare he's eating
dinner with the whole family and cracking offensive
jokes to which his grandmother (outraged) keeps
saying, "Feh Lenny, feh!" What exactly does "feh"
mean?
Candice
--- MJ Walker <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> No indeed. Oy as in O and Gevalt as in Gewalt
> (German and Polish)=
> Force, Power; "As flies to wanton boys are we to the
> gods/They kill us
> for their sport", or Uh oh!/Oh no! Oy veh! is a
> related expletive, from
> O weh! (nice example of that in Mahler's *Lieder
> eines fahrenden
> Gesellen*)= Ah, woe is me! There are of course
> considerable connotative
> differences between the Yiddish and other forms, I
> believe.
> mj amateur mj
> Kenneth Wolman wrote:
>
> > Peter Cudmore wrote:
> >
> >> Care to elaborate on 'Oy Gevalts', Ken?
> >>
> >> P
> >>
> >
> >
> > Oy gevalt="pig" Yiddish signifying the fist shaken
> at the empty
> > heavens, the cry of despair, the What Else Can Go
> Wrong?? Answer: the
> > worst is not when we can say This Is The Worst.
> >
> > Welcome to Oy Gevalt. You don't have to be
> Jewish, etc.
> >
> > ken
> >
>
> --
> A man may write of love, and not be in love, as well
> as of husbandrie, and not goe to plough: or of
> witches, and be none: or of holinesse, and be flat
> prophane. - Giles Fletcher the Elder.
>
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