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timepiececlockWhat does "mensch" mean?
Take this example:
"I’d try to help anyway, because we have history. Not all of it good, but history. And I guess I’m in no position: glass house, kettle, stones, sin? And I have to admit, he’s become a mensch. Not a man, but a mensch."
-from Old Blood
Take this example:
"I’d try to help anyway, because we have history. Not all of it good, but history. And I guess I’m in no position: glass house, kettle, stones, sin? And I have to admit, he’s become a mensch. Not a man, but a mensch."
-from Old Blood
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Date: 2003-06-27 05:15 pm (UTC)Mensch
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Date: 2003-06-27 05:24 pm (UTC)Re: Mensch
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Date: 2003-06-27 05:32 pm (UTC)Ah, here it is. Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary says:
Etymology: Yiddish mentsh human being, from Middle High German mensch, from Old High German mennisco; akin to Old English man human being, man.
: a person of integrity and honor
Re: Mensch
Date: 2003-06-27 05:35 pm (UTC)I've heard it on various TV shows/movies and I'm sure I've seen it in books I've read, but I can't remember exactly which ones.
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Date: 2003-06-27 05:40 pm (UTC)Re: Mensch
Date: 2003-06-27 05:55 pm (UTC)Clearly a sign that you're not from New York, where little bits of Yiddish inevitably creep into your vocabulary. ;)
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Date: 2003-06-27 10:47 pm (UTC)God, it's not like you've asked for my firstborn. It's fine. It's free.
Let me figure out how, and I will.
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Date: 2003-06-27 10:52 pm (UTC)she really cool...her name is kele
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Date: 2003-06-27 10:54 pm (UTC)Hey, why aren't you?
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Date: 2003-06-27 11:00 pm (UTC)If it doesn't work, I'll get yuo another.
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Date: 2003-06-27 11:19 pm (UTC)You taking summer classes? I am. 3. ::shudder::
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Date: 2003-06-27 11:26 pm (UTC)i plan on working, and making stained glass stuff...and MAYBE chillin' with the beaus
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Date: 2003-06-28 12:02 am (UTC)That's why I asked. Not because I ddin't think you could, but because I was curious, since that's what the word means.
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