"Move your ass". Tokhes is Yiddish.
Mark
At 05:40 AM 1/16/2008, you 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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