Subj : Re: Parking Offense, Schmarking Offense
To   : Prigioniero Numero 6
From : Analda Anglin
Date : Thu Apr 27 2006 09:41 am

From: Analda Anglin <analda@nospam.hiwaay.net>

>Someone at it.cultura.linguistica.inglese answered me that it's an yiddish
>joke: when you want to talk not seriously about one thing, you can change
>itas first letter with schm-: eg parking schmarking, nazis schmazis. Can
>someone confirm this yiddish use?
>
I do not know if it is Yiddish.  But I have heard that style of speech many 
times, always when you're not speaking seriously.

Analda aka Sgt of the SchmFAQ
analda@nospam.hiwaay.net

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