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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 14 days ago

If I created the word "shlarmle" for purely phonetic reasons, what should be its definition?

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If I created the word "shlarmle" for purely phonetic reasons, what should be its definition?

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Asklemmy@lemmy.ml · 14 days ago

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A very incompetent person. In Dutch (Amsterdam) Jiddish the word is schlemiel.
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  Sounds like it would be a group of schlemiels.

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