[buug] Berkeley Unix User's Group
Rick Moen
rick at linuxmafia.com
Tue May 31 14:09:12 PDT 2011
Quoting Karen Hogoboom (khogoboom at gmail.com):
> I didn't follow your reference to Nu. Maybe it's an inside joke. Or maybe
> you were drinking coffee and mentally went somewhere that I don't follow.
Like all good Scandinavian-Americans, I have a smattering of Yiddish in
my vocabulary. As to what 'nu', means -- nu, that depends on context and
tone. Leo Rosten (in _The Joy of Yiddish_) cited 19 specific meanings.
> > http://knowyourmeme.com/i/681/original/what-you-did-there-i-see-it.thumbnail.jpg
>
> Funny, but again, I don't follow how that answers that question.
Nu, I didn't take the question very seriously.
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