Re: Buffy Back WITHOUT Joss? Ent. Weekly & Hollywood Reporter
Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2009 8:59 am
Nope.peaks wrote:(. . . I felt compelled to use the word schlocky, even if the word is naughty. Is it? ...)
Killing time while the real WD gets some work done.
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Nope.peaks wrote:(. . . I felt compelled to use the word schlocky, even if the word is naughty. Is it? ...)
Thanks, that's a relief [halo]Sarah wrote:Nope.peaks wrote:(. . . I felt compelled to use the word schlocky, even if the word is naughty. Is it? ...)
I knew of schmuck, schmooze, schnoz, bagel, and now...schlock (cheers ASH)Our Living Language: A good number of English words borrowed from Yiddish (a variety of German with an admixture of Hebrew and Slavic elements) are recognizably of foreign extraction because they begin with sound combinations (shl-, shm-, shn-) not found at the beginnings of native English words. Schlock is such a word; it is descended from a Middle High German word for a hit or blow, and thus came to refer to damaged merchandise, and then to merchandise of poor quality. Other words beginning with this and similar sound combinations are Yiddish also: schlep, schlemiel, schmooze, schmuck, and schnoz. These words may not be equally common in all regions of the United States; they are most frequently heard in areas with sizable Jewish populations that either speak Yiddish or are descended from Yiddish speakers, such as New York City. Of course, not all Yiddish words borrowed into English begin with the sound (sh); one need only think of bagel, lox, blintz, nosh, meshugga, and kibbitz to get a feeling for the variety of words that Yiddish-speaking Jews brought with them to America.
Merely isolating the text to which I was responding. No offense to Mr. Head intended. Indeed, Giles was always my fave, and when I saw the ad for Merlin for the first time last night, I was delighted to see he's in it. For some reason, though, I thought he was going to be Merlin, and I sort of wish he were. But I'll take Uther.peaks wrote:WTF sarah? You deleted my idol and replaced him with three dots...