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To: 4FreeSpeach
Don't be a Schmutz

“5) Most damning of all, the font used is Schmutz, which was invented in 1995.”

Schmutz (also shmuts, (shmŭtz or shmootz) is a Yiddish word of direct German derivation. It can be a noun, a verb, or an adjective.

As in the original German, its use in Yiddish as a noun can designate a range of types of unpleasant substances from any kind of soil such as mud or dust to thick or ground-in dirt such as soot or grass stains. More strongly, and less accurately, it's used to indicate a particularly foul or repulsive matter such as animal waste, or poop, or the fuzzy stuff found growing in the jar way at the back of the fridge. A Jewish comedian once raised schmutz to the exalted status of “dirt that moves.”

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2,873 posted on 08/02/2009 2:01:45 PM PDT by Elle Bee
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To: Elle Bee

Schmutz translates into English from German as dirt


2,908 posted on 08/02/2009 2:07:04 PM PDT by Kaslin (Acronym for 0bama: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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To: Elle Bee

funny, I was just getting back to this thread and that was the first thing that popped into my head(probably not a good choice of words)


3,343 posted on 08/02/2009 3:36:51 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously... You'll never live through it.)
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