On John Kron’s Facebook page: (#1) A little exercise in Yinglish. The verbs in panels 2-4 — kvetch ‘complain’, schvitz ‘sweat’, plotz ‘collapse (or be beside oneself with frustration, annoyance, or other strong emotion)’ — are all from Yiddish, taken into informal English. NOAD2 treats them all as North American and dates them to the … Continue reading Jewtoons