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Shaku? Shmaku?
[Mar. 6th, 2004|
11:17 am
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Shaku? shmaku?
[...] literally translates to "what's there? what isn't?" or to put it simply "tell me everything", which is a question commonly asked in Iraq after you greet someone
Is this just a coincidence, or is the
sh/shm
Yiddish device originally coming from the Semitic languages, via Hebrew?
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