From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

"Steve Ewing"  wrote in message
news:opr1wi26vty0yqhy{at}news.barkto.com...
> On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 22:01:57 +0200, Antti Kurenniemi
>  wrote:
>
> > Isms Schmisms. I laugh at everyone all the time, just not in their face
> > because they might not see it funny like I do.
> >
> > Antti Kurenniemi
>
> I am intrigued by your use of the above expression, having Jewish in-laws
> (and coming from Northern New Jersey, with a large Jewish population).  I
> found the below link by searching on "The Joys of Yiddish"
(a book by Leo
> Rosten):
>
> http://phrases.shu.ac.uk/bulletin_board/13/messages/1488.html

It's one the very few word-plays that translates quite well from my own
language. I could say something like "Ismit Smismit" in Finnish,
and it has the same meaning.


Antti Kurenniemi

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