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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDonald Trump, shemen zich in dein veiten haldz
My grandmother, were she alive, would have had a choice phrase for such a vulgarian: Shemen zich in dein veiten haldz. Literally, this translates as you should be ashamed in your far neck, but that doesnt quite convey the deep contempt the speaker has for the schmuck who committed such a shandeh un a charpeh (shame and disgrace). Alternatively, my bubbe might have opted to give Trump some classic and colorful Yiddish advice: Gai kaken oifen yam go defecate in the ocean.
Covering the insult-o-rama that is the Trump campaign is a soul-draining undertaking, calling to mind another Yiddishism: Darf min gehn in kolledg? (For this I went to college?)
But since Trump has started us on this tour of Yiddishkeit, its worth noting that Yiddish insults are custom-tailored for the overbearing and boorish gantseh macher that Trump has made of himself. Hes a shmegegi and a mamzer, a fabrecher and a nudnik with a lot of chutzpah (and a tuches un a halb). Sorry, youll have to look those up.
Covering the insult-o-rama that is the Trump campaign is a soul-draining undertaking, calling to mind another Yiddishism: Darf min gehn in kolledg? (For this I went to college?)
But since Trump has started us on this tour of Yiddishkeit, its worth noting that Yiddish insults are custom-tailored for the overbearing and boorish gantseh macher that Trump has made of himself. Hes a shmegegi and a mamzer, a fabrecher and a nudnik with a lot of chutzpah (and a tuches un a halb). Sorry, youll have to look those up.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/oy-vey-trump-is-such-a-putz/2015/12/22/4576edb0-a8de-11e5-bff5-905b92f5f94b_story.html
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Donald Trump, shemen zich in dein veiten haldz (Original Post)
pnwmom
Dec 2015
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no_hypocrisy
(46,151 posts)1. I like Yiddish curses.
To Trump: May you grow like an onion, with your head in the ground.
pnwmom
(108,990 posts)2. I love that one!
marybourg
(12,633 posts)3. 'Darf mi[r] gehn in kolledg?”
I think a closer translation for this is : "Do you have to go to college (to say or know or do this)"?
pnwmom
(108,990 posts)5. Except that the more literal translation loses the nuance.
Which is why translation is such a skill and google is so bad at it.
pansypoo53219
(20,987 posts)4. tRUMP is the idiotocracy candidate. next up-OW, MY BALLS.
kwassa
(23,340 posts)6. Don't piss on my back and tell me it's raining.
That one was in there, too.
Hekate
(90,769 posts)7. Oy, thank you. My late father in law had some cuss-phrases so colorful I really can't repeat them
pnwmom
(108,990 posts)8. Maybe we'll be hearing them from the Trumpet then. n/t