If people are from the yeshiva community why are they called Yeshivish, it really makes no sense, you would think modern people with black hats would be called yeshivish, because they weren’t all out yeshiva – but they were a little right of modern and hence could get away with being Yeshiv-ish – but not quite yeshiva.
I understand the term Goyishe, that makes sense, its not really that bad but its secular infused and therefore not totally kosher, so they add the “ish”.
The newest thing to get the “ish” treatment is Jewish – many folks who are Jewish but not really orthodox will write they are “Jew-ish” as if to say they are semi-Jewish but not practicing.
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Same way it got into “Jewish”…
Yeh, just responded to the headline… “ish” has multiple meanings in english, and the common one is N/A to us…
yah i think in German/Yiddish with ish the word becomes an adjective / modifier
Yes but yeshivish and chassidish have non-Ish words which mean the same thing.
Well, Jewish doesn’t mean someone is sort of a Jew, nor does Luxembourghish mean someone who is sort of from Luxembourgh, English is not someone not the language of people who were kind of Anglo, and the Irish are most certainly from Ireland.
Yeshivish-ish, however, would imply that some one is only sort of Yeshivish.
The question in my mind is … Read morewhen does -ish imply a half-hearted stance and when does it suggest belonging to a particular group. This question might be posed to William Saffire, the New York Times’ linguist-ish columnist.
YOU TOOK OFF THAT POST??????????
HOW COWARDLY!!!
(yeah, the one with Adam and Eve)
And I thought you had a sense of humor.
Critic if I agred with the premise of the post I may have kept it on despite peoples email complaints – but since I didn’t agree I decided to take it down
If you didin’t agree with the premise of the post, then why did you post it to begin with!?
Hesh – Just dont be so critical of others when they censor themselves.
And when they say left wingers are more of a threat to free speech then the right wingers, you just proved that point.
German suffix, it’s ish (ich) or dik (dig); depending on word gender, it’s iche (ishe) or dike (digs). Miami Boys Choir!