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To: DustyMoment
strike down this unconstitutional dreck of law.

"Dreck" is such an expressive word. It sounds like what it is. (For those not familiar with Yiddish, it is a synonym for excrement, but far more expressive.)

6 posted on 01/17/2006 4:46:43 PM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree (Abortion is to family planning what bankruptcy is to financial planning.)
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree

Actually, "Dreck" is a German word. In Yiddish it is a loanword from German.


26 posted on 01/17/2006 4:59:05 PM PST by GSlob
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To: TruthShallSetYouFree
(For those not familiar with Yiddish, it is a synonym for excrement, but far more expressive.)

Thanks for the explanation. I am among those who were unfamiliar with the origins of the word. I just grew up knowing that "dreck" was pretty much the bottom of the barrel. As you noted, it is a VERY expressive word and I use it as it applies to . . . . . well, DRECK, such as CFR.
47 posted on 01/18/2006 5:09:14 AM PST by DustyMoment (FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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