11.23.2007

yiddish

The wife's habit when suffering from a certain tone of existential ennui is to watch The Apartment as many times as necessary to placate its worst excesses.

A recent late night viewing generated this list of Yiddish words used in the screenplay:

schnook
mushigas
nebbish
schmeer
mensch


Apropos of nothing really- choose your own ending for this post.

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