Re: Nu?
- From: Eli Grubman <eli.grubman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 06:49:08 +0000 (UTC)
On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 06:18:44 +0000 (UTC), moshes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
eli.grubman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Eli Grubman) writes:
On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:00:48 +0000 (UTC), moshes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
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?"!
I like that, yet I wonder how many modern-day Israelis would
understand.
I'm sure most of them would. It's a common phrase.
Even though Yiddish is pretty much a dead language - the lingua franca
(or rather judaica) of a handful of Holocaust survivors?
I suppose I should have looked this up in a search engine before
posting here. Having done so subsequently, I found a reasonably clear
answer on jewfaq.org
I'm not surprised. But then we wouldn't have had this pleasent
conversation.
Indeed. Something nice and non-confrontational for a change!
Eli
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