February 24th, 2012 at 11:29PM
wasting-paper: I grew up around a little yinglish. I’ve always wanted to learn yiddish because I feel like it’s a connection to my great grandparents…but in the meantime, I’m perfectly happy with the basic phrases thrown around in conversation at family gatherings, all of which, no matter the meaning, I find absolutely beautiful. My favorite is zaftig, which means “pleasantly plump.” Unless the definitions are lost on a fourth generation american, which is understandable anyway.  Word art is nice, at least.

wasting-paper:

I grew up around a little yinglish. I’ve always wanted to learn yiddish because I feel like it’s a connection to my great grandparents…but in the meantime, I’m perfectly happy with the basic phrases thrown around in conversation at family gatherings, all of which, no matter the meaning, I find absolutely beautiful. My favorite is zaftig, which means “pleasantly plump.” Unless the definitions are lost on a fourth generation american, which is understandable anyway. 

Word art is nice, at least.

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