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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