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Re: Schtick

Posted: Tue June 28, 2022 1:29 pm
by tree_
the 'c' stays

Re: Schtick

Posted: Tue June 28, 2022 1:34 pm
by Jorge
The Argonaut wrote:The c is essential

schtick

shtick

It gives the word gravitas, and makes it more jewish
It's derived from the Yiddish "shtik", which doesn't have ANY c's in it

Re: Schtick

Posted: Tue June 28, 2022 1:36 pm
by The Argonaut
Don't you tell me about Yiddish, you little pisher

Re: Schtick

Posted: Tue June 28, 2022 1:58 pm
by tragabigzanda
Carl Sandburg wrote:There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

Re: Schtick

Posted: Tue June 28, 2022 2:41 pm
by spike
One c at most

Re: Schtick

Posted: Tue June 28, 2022 6:42 pm
by wease
The Argonaut wrote:The c is essential

schtick

shtick

It gives the word gravitas, and makes it more jewish
Do you also pronounce school “shool?”

Re: Schtick

Posted: Tue June 28, 2022 6:45 pm
by The Argonaut
wease wrote:
The Argonaut wrote:The c is essential

schtick

shtick

It gives the word gravitas, and makes it more jewish
Do you also pronounce school “shool?”
lol 'shul' is in fact the Yiddish word for school, if I'm not mistaken. Or at least something like that. In English, it's used as a word for synagogue, at least in places I've known

Re: Schtick

Posted: Tue June 28, 2022 6:47 pm
by tree_
getting some strong anti-Semitism vibes

Re: Schtick

Posted: Tue June 28, 2022 6:48 pm
by The Argonaut
From whom?

Re: Schtick

Posted: Tue June 28, 2022 7:05 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
This thread is pissing me off

Re: Schtick

Posted: Tue June 28, 2022 7:08 pm
by spike
Knishlist

Re: Schtick

Posted: Tue June 28, 2022 7:16 pm
by The Argonaut
E.H. Ruddock wrote:This thread is pissing me off
tree_ wrote:getting some strong anti-Semitism vibes

Re: Schtick

Posted: Tue June 28, 2022 7:25 pm
by JuanHamm
Spin the black Dreidel

Re: Schtick

Posted: Tue June 28, 2022 7:29 pm
by spike
Rabbinaural

Re: Schtick

Posted: Tue June 28, 2022 7:35 pm
by BurtReynolds
oy vey!

Re: Schtick

Posted: Tue June 28, 2022 7:47 pm
by Jorge
tragabigzanda wrote:Eat him, Jorge!
I won't eat him but I will defeat him

Re: Schtick

Posted: Tue June 28, 2022 8:07 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
The Argonaut wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:This thread is pissing me off
tree_ wrote:getting some strong anti-Semitism vibes
No i mean the spelling and pronunciation of the word shtick.

This is RMerican all over again

Re: Schtick

Posted: Tue June 28, 2022 8:14 pm
by Dev
Dev for the fucking win lets go

Re: Schtick

Posted: Tue June 28, 2022 8:18 pm
by The Argonaut
Shtick is probably technically correct, but schtick looks and feels better. The spelling better matches the essence of the word

Re: Schtick

Posted: Tue June 28, 2022 9:28 pm
by tragabigzanda
Carl Sandburg wrote:There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.