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From: taibi@inil.com (Solomon Taibi)
Subject: Re: yada
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Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 12:57:38 GMT
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deb5@ellis.uchicago.edu (Daniel von Brighoff) wrote:

>In article <glen.831651064@heurikon.com>,
>Glen Ecklund <glen@scooter.heurikon.com> wrote:
>>Can anyone tell me what this means, and where it comes from?

>	I have no idea what its origins are, but my Jewish
>friends often use it as an equivalent of "blah blah blah" or
>"and so on and so on". 

Very interesting.  I am Jewish, and I use the term "yada" this way,
but I was unaware that this is a specifically Jewish thing.

I have a very strong impression of non-Jewish people using it 
the same way, but I can't prove it.  It never occurred to me that
they got it from Jews.

--
S. Taibi
Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks
into spears:  Let the weak say 'I am strong'.  (Joel 3:10)


