From Insult to Manual Labor

Justin Schwartz jkschw at hotmail.com
Fri Dec 15 13:02:01 PST 2000


Hymie, a common nickname used in the Jewish community several generations ago for the now old-fashioned name Hyman. --jks


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>Justin Schwartz wrote:
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> > I knew it. It _is_ a bit old fashioned. But I didn't have to look it up.
> > --jks
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>I can't remember where or when I 'learned' it but I recognized it
>at once for what it is. It gave me quite a start to see it on lbo. Pound
>has a reference somewhere to "Schoeney's Daughters" but I couldn't
>find it so I don't know whether or not it's a play on "sheeney." (I had
>never heard "himey" before Jackson's use of it blew up a storm.)
>Political correctness (I use the term positively) is having some success
>in depriving bigots of the language in which to preserve their
>consciousness and solidarity.
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>Carrol
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