Re: Nu?



eli.grubman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Eli Grubman) writes:
What exactly does this (Yiddish?) word, which I've seen a number of
posters here use, mean? My grandfather, who was born in the Ukraine,
used to say it to mean "Well?" or "Yes?".

A friend of mine got a job with the Israeli police as a computer
systems analyst. This was years ago when the state-of-the-art console
had a ball typewriter. The Operating System would type out "Awaiting
reply" whenever the operator needed to type in a response. That took
too long so my friend shortened the mesaage to "Nu?"!

Moshe Schorr
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