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Another example of how our language has been altered (media.scored.co)
posted 1 year ago by CottonHill on scored.co (+0 / -0 / +12Score on mirror )
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disoriented on scored.co
1 year ago 3 points (+0 / -0 / +3Score on mirror ) 1 child
Those are two different words. They are spelled the same but have different origins.

"Faggot" as a bundle of sticks is described correctly here. However, "faggot" as a homosexual is a corruption of the yiddish word "fagele" or "fegele". It was used in New York by the swarm of Eastern European jews that flooded the country beginning in the mid to late 19th century. Gentiles hearing jews talk heard the word and understood the meaning in the context and perpetuated its use. Quite a lot of yiddish entered the White lexicon this way, including "schmutz", "kibbitz", and "schmuck".

This is not conjecture, this is a fact. There is no connection between the two meanings for the word.
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PurestEvil on scored.co
1 year ago 2 points (+0 / -0 / +2Score on mirror ) 1 child
> "schmutz", "schmuck"

These are German words... these damn jews.
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disoriented on scored.co
1 year ago 1 point (+0 / -0 / +1Score on mirror )
They are indeed. German yiddish incorporated a great deal of German, including the syntax and suffixes. "Schmutz" (dirty) means the same in both German and yiddish, but "Schmuck" means jewelry in German. This is why there are subsets of yiddish that are heavy with vocabulary from where it was spoken, like Poland, Germany, Lithuania, or Russia.

The word "faggot" comes from is German "Vogel" (pronounced fohgel) and "Vögel" (pronounced faygel, more or less) and means "bird" or "birds".
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