verklempt

Feeling verklempt?

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[davidlmajors213]

I love it!



[issyvoo2]

@synestheticmonotony Yup.

[synestheticmonotony]

@issyvoo2 It began as a pidgin, then it led to creole, now it is its own language with its own linguistic grammatical rules. Happens all the time. :)

[issyvoo2]

@TheRealTeaRex Yiddish is something like 85% German and German speakers can understand it to some degree but, as you rightly point out, it is its own language and even the words that were originally German can't be assumed to still have the same meaning as they do in German.

[TheRealTeaRex]

@carosta

No, it does not have the same meaning. German "verklemmt" means "uptight", "stuffy" or "inhibited". Like a person who turns off all the lights during sex and makes very sure they aren't heard by their neighbors. Yiddish / English "verklempt" means "bursting with emotion". Like a person who is just about to break out in tears. Not the same meaning at all.

[carosta]

Thanks, this is nice!

I thought "verklempt" is a misspelling of the German word "verklemmt" but now I know it is a special word. It has the same meaning as the German word.

[MaxxFordham]

@dpowens

Who asked whom first?

[dpowens]

@MaxxFordham Why did you use the word kinescope if you were just going to explain what it meant anyway?

[MsMaestro00]

Is that Roseanne Barr at the end in the reddish pink outfit?

[poop121]

@sitgeshorn

yes it is