[wp-testers] Crazyhorse?

Kirk M kmb42vt at gmail.com
Mon Jun 16 11:52:52 GMT 2008


So it's going from Crazyhorse's to teaching Yiddish already? So I need 
to come to WordPress to learn this? Oy, whaddah bunch of schlameil's. 
Nice schlameil's maybe, talented schlameil's maybe but may I suggest you 
get back to some serious putzin' around? :D

Doug Stewart wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 5:27 AM, wohack<wohack at alice.it>  wrote:
>    
>> On 16/giu/08, at 08:02, Matt Mullenweg wrote:
>>      
>>> We don't tinker, we putz.
>>>
>>>        
>> Could some polyglott, please, supply an exquivalent of the second of the
>> above verbs in the language which is understood as english on an
>> international level, so that also non native speakers are able to understand
>> clearly what is going on with the UI?
>> Is the meaning of "putz" somehow congruent with the german "putzen"?
>>
>> TIA :-)
>> Brigitte
>>
>>
>>      
>
> Close in root, but not in meaning.  It's from the Yiddish (vulgar form
> of "penis", actually) so it could be considered a more "polite" way of
> saying "d***ing around" while in the presence of non-Yiddish-speaking
> goyim such as myself.  I guess it's likely still seen as fairly vulgar
> to those with a knowledge of Yiddish
>
>    


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