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Unfortunately I can't edit it further (perhaps due to having said "fuck", "Hitler", and "nigger" in a single comment) but I need to add that "crap" turns out to come from Latin by way of Old French.

Also, this page is fantastic: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_Yid...

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By the way, The German words in Yiddish are not bastardized standard German, but bastardized Pfälzisch, basically the dialect where I grew up. "Gefilde Fis[c]h" is how one would pronounce "Gefüllter Fisch" there, etc.

In the middle ages, the Mainz-Worms-Speyer region was the center of Jewish life in Germany.

I think I even found a wrong explanation on that Wikipedia page, simply by knowing Pfälzisch: A "Schnook" is a housefly. It doesn't match the Yiddish meaning that well, but it's the exact same word.

Hmm! I wonder if you can correct it.

(The above second comment is also edit-locked, but at least at the moment this one isn't, even an hour-plus later, so evidently it wasn't "landīca" that triggered the logic, despite being by far the most offensive term in the whole comment.)

My wife, a native speaker of Spanish who doesn't speak German, reports that to her ears German sounds angry rather than silly.

For what it's worth, your initial comment showed for me as dead (i.e. shadowbanned) until I vouched for it (within an hour or so after you posted it). It would appear you managed to trip some filters with this thread :)

Thanks!

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