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Re: Is my username offensive?
« Reply #40 on: August 02, 2022, 06:31:10 PM »
OT, I recently learned that the word 'cabal' is antisemitic in origin. Based off the word "Kabbalah" with connotations of secret groups plotting to control the world through unnatural/mystical means.
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Re: Is my username offensive?
« Reply #41 on: August 02, 2022, 07:13:12 PM »
Quote from: CountValentine on August 02, 2022, 05:58:04 PM
Will have to cue up @TimT but I don't think I use "yid".
Were you aware of the word prior to this thread ?
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Re: Is my username offensive?
« Reply #42 on: August 02, 2022, 07:20:12 PM »
Quote from: TimT on August 02, 2022, 07:13:12 PM
Were you aware of the word prior to this thread ?
I thought it meant a young male Jew.  :-[
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Re: Is my username offensive?
« Reply #43 on: August 02, 2022, 07:21:23 PM »
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Re: Is my username offensive?
« Reply #44 on: August 02, 2022, 07:58:03 PM »
Quote from: avromie7 on August 02, 2022, 06:28:03 PM
What's Tiferes?

Ba'al teshuva yeshiva. "Yids" is quite common among those who are just figuring out the lingo.
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Re: Is my username offensive?
« Reply #45 on: August 02, 2022, 08:39:59 PM »


Quote from: avromie7 on August 02, 2022, 05:32:55 PM

To simplify:
Chassidish speaking yiddish - deed
Non-chassidish speaking english - did
Chassidish speaking english or non-chassidish speaking yiddish - can go either way.

I grew up in Chassidic community with Lithuanian origins (Chabad-Lubavitch). It was always pronounced similar to did. In Yiddish and English.
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Re: Is my username offensive?
« Reply #46 on: August 02, 2022, 08:51:59 PM »
Quote from: CountValentine on August 02, 2022, 07:20:12 PM
I thought it meant a young male Jew.  :-[
And a female being “yidene” :)
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Re: Is my username offensive?
« Reply #47 on: August 02, 2022, 08:52:57 PM »
What's the etymology of yid?
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Re: Is my username offensive?
« Reply #48 on: August 02, 2022, 08:55:11 PM »
Quote from: Euclid on August 02, 2022, 08:52:57 PM
What's the etymology of yid?
Probably a corruption of Yehudi
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Re: Is my username offensive?
« Reply #49 on: August 02, 2022, 09:12:08 PM »
Quote from: Euclid on August 02, 2022, 08:52:57 PM
What's the etymology of yid?
It comes from then German word Jude (pronounced Yude), like judenrein.
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Re: Is my username offensive?
« Reply #50 on: August 02, 2022, 09:23:13 PM »
Quote from: avromie7 on August 02, 2022, 09:12:08 PM
It comes from then German word Jude (pronounced Yude), like judenrein.
Hey Jude
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Re: Is my username offensive?
« Reply #51 on: August 02, 2022, 09:25:29 PM »
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Re: Is my username offensive?
« Reply #52 on: August 02, 2022, 09:41:22 PM »
Quote from: Euclid on August 02, 2022, 09:23:13 PM
Hey Jude
Take a sad song and make it better?
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Re: Is my username offensive?
« Reply #53 on: August 02, 2022, 09:47:04 PM »
This thread went off the rails fast  :)
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Re: Is my username offensive?
« Reply #54 on: August 02, 2022, 09:48:22 PM »
Quote from: Dan on August 02, 2022, 01:40:25 PM
Google has the word Yid blacklisted as a slur for some reason.
Due to Wikipedia.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yid
Can someone please edit the page?
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Re: Is my username offensive?
« Reply #55 on: August 02, 2022, 09:49:50 PM »
Quote from: CountValentine on August 02, 2022, 09:41:22 PM
Take a sad song and make it better?
Lol. I knew you'd get the reference
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Re: Is my username offensive?
« Reply #56 on: August 02, 2022, 09:59:35 PM »
Quote from: Euclid on August 02, 2022, 09:49:50 PM
Lol. I knew you'd get the reference
...but how many others? I would guess @Dan would.
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Re: Is my username offensive?
« Reply #57 on: August 02, 2022, 10:00:07 PM »
Quote from: WonderingYid on August 02, 2022, 09:47:04 PM
This thread went off the rails fast  :)
Didn't you get your answer?
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Re: Is my username offensive?
« Reply #58 on: August 02, 2022, 10:42:38 PM »
Quote from: CountValentine on August 02, 2022, 09:59:35 PM
...but how many others? I would guess @Dan would.

Everyone knows Hey Jude is the famous diatribe by those cockroach fellows
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Re: Is my username offensive?
« Reply #59 on: August 02, 2022, 10:47:34 PM »
Quote from: wayfe on August 02, 2022, 06:31:10 PM
OT, I recently learned that the word 'cabal' is antisemitic in origin. Based off the word "Kabbalah" with connotations of secret groups plotting to control the world through unnatural/mystical means.

Source? I found the "kabbalah" connection, but nothing about the anti-semitic origins (or even use)
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