This You Call Vocabulary?

[gnomi]

[Poll #1018687]

Comments

[tsuki-no-bara.livejournal.com]

tchotchkes. things. weirdly enough the word always makes me think of little old ladies who collect porcelain angel statues and then display them all over the living room. go fig.

...i don't even know what narrischkeit means.

[theodosia.livejournal.com]

Exactly the way I spell it!

I don't know that I've ever had the occasion to use "schmatte" in conversation but I'd know what it was if someone were to use it. "Mishpoche" and "Narrischkeit" are unknown by me.

[ragingpixie.livejournal.com]

I don't know "narrischkeit" either, but "mishpoche" means big family, group, tribe. That kind of thing. And I spell tchotchkes same as you. :)

[madfilkentist]

I'd guess that "narrischkeit" means "foolishness" by analogy to German.

[ragingpixie.livejournal.com]

that's how i spell it too. :)

[chaiya.livejournal.com]

Tchotchkes all the way, baby. :)

[kuroshii.livejournal.com]

"tchotchkes" here too.
i don't know what any of those other words mean. tbh i didn't even know what "tchotchkes" meant outside of the english usage till just now, other than knowing intuitively it had to have meant something.