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Re: [ARSCLIST] Dol Dauber



The sentence should be more something like this:

Nicht wirklich, aber in den vergangenen Jahren habe ich viele Tonbänder mit Rasierklingen geschnitten.

And there is no "s" on Schneider in the plural.

:-)

Erik

Steven C. Barr wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Aaron Z Snyder" <azs@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Nicht wirklich, aber im vorigen Jahren hab' ich viele Tonbände mit
Rasierklingen geschneidet.
...and certainly before Ellis Island, the name was pronounced "Schneider",
but it may have been spelled shin nun yod yod dalet ayin resh, i.e. in
Yiddish. My father and his father sold men's clothing, so they were, to some
extent, gent Schneiders.


"Schneiden," auf Deutsch, literally means "to cut!" Since tailors HAVE to, by
definition, "cut" the material from which they make a garment...thus making
them "Schneiders"...?!


...stevenc


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