Re: Nebbich (was: Question)

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Brian M. Scott" <bm.brian@...> wrote:

>
> At 3:56:22 AM on Tuesday, September 14, 2010, Torsten wrote:
>
> > What's with the new headline, George? Nebbish? What's that
> > about?
>
> <Nebbich>, not <nebbish>. More or less equivalent to <Na,
> wenn schon> 'So what?', I gather, and as an adjective
> something like <nebensächlich, unwesentlich>.

The reason I asked is I found this ref.
http://tinyurl.com/2w3t6pd
in a reference here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yiddish_language (note 14)

so I wondered whether George referred to that clue to Yiddish originating in the east and had forgot to include it in his posting or whether he was trying something less laudable.

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/nebbish
http://de.wiktionary.org/wiki/Nebbich


Torsten