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O weh ist mir = "woe is me that fate should come and put me in the shit, again" poor me. yes, it's good Yiddish meika On 17/04/2007, at 17:34, MJ Walker wrote: > I didn't see the movie, but I think veh or feh is just the German > Weh=woe. Germans still say O Weh in situations wher they might also > say Scheiße=shit, another variant being Au weiha. Weh(e) alone is a > kind of warning or admonition in modern German, and I suggest > that's what the granny was doing. > mj > MC Ward wrote: > >> 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. >>> >>> >> >> >> __________________________________________________ >> Do You Yahoo!? >> Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around >> http://mail.yahoo.com >> > > -- > 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.