History Main / YiddishAsASecondLanguage

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** Mittens uses the term “kvetch” in “The Coffee Shop.” Bolt misunderstands the term as “kwetch.”
** Blaze uses the words “schlep,” “canoodle,” and “verklempt” in “The Cameo.” His girlfriend Tracey refers to him as a “putz.”

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Thanks to this trope, however, several Yiddish terms have become a standard part of American English vernacular. Concentrated in large American cities and spreading out worldwide, common Yiddish terms like "putz", "schmooze", "WordSchmord", are slowly becoming standard English words. Even idioms that sound perfectly American, like "Eat your heart out" or "What's not to like?" are calques from Yiddish, still preserving the original Yiddish speech patterns. This trope evolved from the early movies and TV — censors were aggressive in editing out curses, sexual references, etc. However, most of these early censors did not speak Yiddish, so the writers, actors, and producers (who often did) used Yiddish curse words as a way of GettingCrapPastTheRadar. Similar linguistic absorption is observable in [[UsefulNotes/BritishAccents Cockney and related North London dialects]]. Essentially Yiddish is GratuitousGerman with a sprinkle of Hebrew.

** "Stress Fracture" depicts Dee Castle's family as stereotypical American Ashkenazim (possibly as a reflection of author [[WriteWhatYouKnow Diane Castle's real family]], in much the same way the character's OCD reflects her own problems with the condition).[[https://whateley.academy/index.php/read/story/stress-fracture]]

* Franchise/{{Spider Man}}, particularly the Ultimate universe version, is fond of peppering his speech with random Yiddish, especially during fights -- despite the fact that he's Lutheran, not Jewish. But then, he's from New York City. In fact, his home neighborhood in Queens, Forest Hills, is ''very'' Jewish.

* Harley Quinn of ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'', first started using common Yiddish phrases like "Oy" when she first appeared in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' owing to Gotham City often being thought of as another expy of [[BigApplesauce New York City]]. Many thought she was only borrowing the language since Harley has blue eyes and blonde hair, but ''Gotham City Sirens #7'' confirmed that not only is Harley originally from New York, she is half-Jewish on her mother's side.

** "Cavity Search" rhymes "x-ray" with "oy vey" and "The Plumbing Song" says to "call the mensch with a monkey wrench," while "Website/EBay" states "I'll buy your tchotchkes."

Thanks to this trope, however, several Yiddish terms have become a standard part of American English vernacular. Concentrated in large American cities and spreading out worldwide, common Yiddish terms like "putz", "schmooze", "WordSchmord", are slowly becoming standard English words. Even idioms that sound perfectly American, like "Eat your heart out" or "What's not to like?" are calques from Yiddish, still preserving the original Yiddish speech patterns. This trope evolved from the early movies and TV — censors were aggressive in editing out curses, sexual references, etc. However, most of these early censors did not speak Yiddish, so the writers, actors, and producers (who often did) used Yiddish curse words as a way of GettingCrapPastTheRadar. Similar linguistic absorption is observable in [[UsefulNotes/BritishAccents Cockney and related North London dialects]].

* Meowth from ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' has been known to occasionally let loose an "oy vey" ever since [[Creator/JimmyZoppi Carter Cathcart]] started voicing him in the English dub