bupkis I know. you don't need to live in NYC to catch those yiddishisms.
awesome facts o'life there
KS
On 16/01/2008, Pierre Joris <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> move your butt & check it out in the online dictionaries (if you are
> not a new yorker):
>
> tokhes: "backside, buttocks," 1962, an abbreviation of tochus (1914),
> from Yiddish tokhes, from Heb. tahat "beneath."
>
> in New York it all gets mixed up. here's a couple wisdom tags on
> Jewish Buddhism:
>
> > Sayings of a Jewish Buddhist
> >
> > If there is no self, whose arthritis is this?
> > Be here now. Be someplace else later. Is that so complicated?
> > Drink tea and nourish life; with the first sip, joy; with the
> > second sip, satisfaction; with the third sip, peace; with the
> > fourth, a Danish.
> > Wherever you go, there you are. Your luggage is another story.
> > Accept misfortune as a blessing. Do not wish for perfect health, or
> > a life without problems. What would you talk about?
> > Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then
> > what do you have? Bupkis.
>
> which leaves bupkis to be checked out in the dictionary.
>
> Pierre
>
> On Jan 16, 2008, at 5:40 AM, kasper salonen wrote:
>
> > I can't decipher "mueve tu tokhes".. or even be sure how it's
> > pronounced.
> >
> > KS
> >
> > On 16/01/2008, Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >> So I'm at the physical therapist's this morning (pulled tendon,
> >> nothing serious), where the staff is Dominican, like the
> >> neighborhood, though there are sizeable remnant populations of
> >> previous waves of immigration. An aide shouts out to another, "mueve
> >> tu tokhes." Wow. She told me that she and the other workers have
> >> learned a fair amount of Yiddish from some of the clients, and it's
> >> mixed into their everyday Spanish, along with some Arabic and
> >> Russian.
> >>
> >> Thus do dialects evolve.
> >>
> >> Mark
> >>
>
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