From: Damien Broderick (d.broderick@english.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Fri Mar 03 2000 - 20:54:45 MST
At 07:06 PM 3/03/00 -0800, Schmpike wrote:
>Later someone said that to ridicule anything by saying anything-
>schmanything, or *-schm* is to ridicule Jewish people!
No, no, it's to *sympathetically emulate* a sardonicYiddish usage!
Damien (oy vey, I split an infinitive already!)
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