Date: Wed, 5 Nov 1997 00:32:53 -0500

From: ALICE FABER faber[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]HASKINS.YALE.EDU

Subject: Re: "so do me something"



from beth again:



| Yes, I'm wondering whether it's a Yiddish calque, or perhaps

| a pseudo Yiddish calque, on the order of "to know nothing

| about nothing".

^^^^^



Please, beth, in authentic pseudo-Yiddish, this is "to know nothing FROM

nothing". Believe me, I know from pseudo-Yiddish.



Alice Faber