"Eric Gill" <ericvgill@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:Xns947A9BD5F8270ericvgillyahoocom@24.93.43.119...
> Severian <severian@chlamydia-is-not-a-flower.com> wrote in
> news:chq5109d7sb94c4vr308v0459u33utt8df@4ax.com:
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> > On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 21:38:53 +0000 (UTC), Eric Gill
> > <ericvgill@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> >>Severian <severian@chlamydia-is-not-a-flower.com> wrote in
> >>news:thm5105ind7aimbgpvso916tag2851i87h@4ax.com:
> >>
> >>> Oy vey! While I have no inclination to agree with UD, your reply does
> >>> seem rather anti-semetic.
> >>
> >>Uhm - why, exactly?
> >><snip>
> >
> > You compared Yiddish epics to Klezmer symphonies, implying that
> > because they are both Yiddish, they are both poorly done. However, I
> > am not Jewish, and certainly not a Yiddish scholar, so I may not have
> > understood your analogy.
>
> Ah.
>
> Well, no. The similarity is that both are more "everyday" forms of
> communication/art, colorful and usually not too serious.
>
> I know very well there are exceptions. I really doubt Uncle Schmuck knew
as
> much before you told him.
>
Don't confuse the beautiful and mysterious tones of the Jewish style on the
clarinet with your littering the place with filthy perjoratives.
You're just trying to spin your way out, now.
Uncle Davey
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