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Welcome to another summer mini cast of Away With Words. I'm Martha Barnett.

We're on our regular summer hiatus, but you think that's going to stop us from talking no way in fact here's a call we

couldn't wait to share with you. Hi this is Chris Marix calling from

San Diego, California. Well hello Chris in San. What's cooking in San Diego?

Well, the weather is certainly beautiful and we're cooking a little because it's nice and warm out today.

Yeah, yeah, what else is new?

Exactly.

So I was raised in New Jersey, and although I live out here now, and when I was a kid, I spent an awful lot of time with a local family, parents and siblings of a good friend of mine

who were Jewish people and they were reformed Jews living in New Jersey and they

use a lot of Yiddish expressions and I'm not Jewish from my family and one of the expressions I use all the time was

Hachme and Chinic and we heard it a lot and I picked up a lot of additions from them from being around

them so much

and uh... i would wonder and they did to actually

uh... what exactly does that mean i mean we knew what i mean we knew what i mean

knew what i mean contextually when m mister time berg is it to me you know oh hockey and china knew what it meant contextually when Mrs. Steinberg said to me you know

hockey and china karate it meant you know you're driving me crazy leave me alone

but literally we never knew what it really meant

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