Comments on: Gen, gaku, ka http://youmadam.com/2008/06/15/gen-gaku-ka/ It must be time for a meal to be served... Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:18:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Family Father http://youmadam.com/2008/06/15/gen-gaku-ka/#comment-236 Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:10:26 +0000 http://contemplationrose.wordpress.com/?p=307#comment-236 Thank you, Family Daughter, for your kind comments. I wish I could grow hydrangeas like the ones in your photos. Love, WL


Madam says: You’re welcome.

]]> By: camomilla http://youmadam.com/2008/06/15/gen-gaku-ka/#comment-228 Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:19:53 +0000 http://contemplationrose.wordpress.com/?p=307#comment-228 hi madam,
thanks for your blog and sharing your thoughts and nice pictures!
i love your style of writing.
kind regards from germany! will read you soon again!


Madam says: Thanks for your kind comment!

]]> By: headbang8 http://youmadam.com/2008/06/15/gen-gaku-ka/#comment-226 Sun, 15 Jun 2008 11:27:28 +0000 http://contemplationrose.wordpress.com/?p=307#comment-226 You’re rather lucky in the dad department, no? Except for the cholesterol.

And what on earth does “hock my chinik” mean? Or is it one of those phrases that is more useful if not too clearly defined?

The big move must be coming up soon. Trust that you, madam, will be no Hemingway, when you arrive in DC.

Madam says: Don’t hock my chinik is a hybrid Yiddish-English saying that means “Stop nudging me,” or “Stop harping on about it.” There are all kinds of Yiddish sites with more about this phrase. My stepfather often said it in a loud, mock-angry tone to my mother. Then we’d all laugh.

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