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To: massgopguy

>> I hate to nit pick, but Chutzpah is not an admirable trait.

Not that Wikipedia is the end-all-be-all of reference ... but ...

[From the Wikipedia entry on Chutzpah] “In Hebrew, chutzpah is used indignantly, to describe someone who has over-stepped the boundaries of accepted behavior with no shame. But in Yiddish and English, chutzpah has developed ambivalent and even positive connotations. Chutzpah can be used to express admiration for non-conformist but gutsy audacity.”

It appears to me that there is an interpretation of the term which carries an admirable connotation (a synonym for “audacity” ... which is not always bad).

SnakeDoc


5 posted on 03/12/2010 9:12:22 AM PST by SnakeDoctor (The night is darkest just before the dawn, but [...] the dawn is coming. -- Harvey Dent)
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To: SnakeDoctor

INDEED.


19 posted on 03/12/2010 10:44:15 AM PST by Quix (BLOKES who got us where we R: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
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