this post was submitted on 04 Jul 2026
455 points (85.2% liked)

memes

21869 readers
1438 users here now

Community rules

1. Be civilNo trolling, bigotry or other insulting / annoying behaviour

2. No politicsThis is non-politics community. For political memes please go to !politicalmemes@lemmy.world

3. No recent repostsCheck for reposts when posting a meme, you can only repost after 1 month

4. No botsNo bots without the express approval of the mods or the admins

5. No Spam/Ads/AI SlopNo advertisements or spam. This is an instance rule and the only way to live. We also consider AI slop to be spam in this community and is subject to removal.

A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment

Sister communities

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Goy and goyim are also just actually words that are fairly commonly used by many English speaking Jews.

Fair amount of other Yiddish and Hebrew words other than goy/goyim are used this way as well.

Its like... an additional vernacular.

Chutzpah, means basically ... shameless audacity, or ... arrogant presumption of privilege, something like that.

Oi Vey! ... basically 'Woe is me!', but also kind of more like 'Oh shit/fuck/no'... sort of.

... I'm not saying you can't use these words and phrases as like, part of a cariacature, but they are also just words and phrases you'd have probably picked up, growing up in a Jewish family, or around them.

Similar to how you'd have an additional vernacular set if you were from some other cultural/ethic/religious background...

... not exactly the same, but Evangelical Christians for example have a weird tendency to pluralize 'evidence' into 'evidences', use 'discernment' in common speech waaay more often than others do, etc.