From: cowan@ccil.org (John Cowan)
Subject: [TUHS] who is "Veigh S. Meer"?
Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2015 17:15:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4a3eb197576c3793420c2a2dbf9eb892.squirrel@www.ccil.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1507170701060.92212@aneurin.horsfall.org>
Scripsit Dave Horsfall:
> On Thu, 16 Jul 2015, John Cowan wrote:
>
>> The punning pseudonym,
>
> Call me slow, but can someone please explain the joke? If it's American
> humo[u]r, then remember that I'm British/Australian...
It represents a phonetic respelling of Yiddish "vey iz mir", corresponding
etymologically to German "Weh ist mir" and English "woe is me", but more
idiomatically to "Oh, no!", expressing despair.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-16 21:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-16 15:48 Deborah Scherrer
2015-07-16 20:17 ` John Cowan
2015-07-16 20:27 ` Deborah Scherrer
2015-07-16 21:04 ` Dave Horsfall
2015-07-16 21:15 ` John Cowan [this message]
2015-07-16 23:31 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2015-07-17 5:25 ` Dave Horsfall
2015-07-16 22:21 Norman Wilson
2015-07-16 22:29 ` John Cowan
2015-07-21 1:18 Doug McIlroy
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