*sighs*

[conuly]

So, somebody over at customers_suck is trying to tell me that no Jewish person would ever use the word babushka to mean anything other than their dear granny, and certainly not that headcovering often worn by dear grannies. I'm very kindly not pointing out that babushka is a Russian word, and that therefore it's very likely that Jews from other parts of the world (yes, they still exist) would never have even heard the word with its original meaning, but this still leaves the nagging question - for people (not just Jews!) of Eastern European descent, is that true? Who speak English, that is.

I've now said the word Jew more often in this one day than I usually do in a year. I'd say oy vey, but that's really taking this "I know random Yiddish phrases!" thing too far.

Oh, and of course, I apparently know nothing of Judaism or Jewish people. I guess that going to two very heavily Jewish schools (Stuy and Brooklyn College) in a traditionally very Jewish city means I must've been walking around with my eyes closed my whole life, instead of my nose in any book I could find (many of which, strangely enough, involved Jewish people. Jewish like Jewish, not Jewish like my Cousin Frances whom I don't like and don't think is really Jewish anyway, not that I'd tell her that)

Edit: And in other news, we all resolved our differences, and are nice and social and happy. And I got two imaginary cookies out of the deal!

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[conuly]

Yeah, really. It's not even okay if that's edited to be "No Eastern European Jewish woman."

I mean, hello? Sephardic Judaism? Ethiopian Jews? Converts?