In its continuing struggle to improve the quality of its readership, the Daily Moaner’s languages department brings to you — Spanish for Nannies, featuring the words and phrases that totally horrible, arrogant and patronising American ladies really need to know.
February 25, 2010
November 14, 2009
Yiddish, Shmiddish…
You are coming to pay your grand-parents a call in the Big Apple? Oy vey ! Rachel, come quick, a miracle is happening. Oh… also your new wife. The shiksa . We should be so lucky. But listen — would it hurt for her to learn the language before she comes? No, not English! And not Yiddish.
That’s right… Yinglish. You knew all the time, you little mensch .
She can learn the basics from this little book. Send it to you? All of a sudden, we are a charity? Oy, such chutzpah . Just schlep down to the bookstore and ask. Or get it from here.
Better yet, watch the video…
Oh… and when you come — don’t forget the you-know-what . You know perfectly well — don’t be a schmuck. The B-A-C-O… that’s right. But not a word to Bubbe .