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> While finishing the soup, Henson told me, kind of plainly, that his dad was a “bad man.” “At this point in my life,” he said, “the highest compliment someone
by js2 4y ago
> While finishing the soup, Henson told me, kind of plainly, that his dad was a “bad man.” “At this point in my life,” he said, “the highest compliment someone can say about me is that I’m a ‘good man.’ That’s all that matters to me.”
Yiddish has just the right word for this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mensch https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mensch
- grahamplace 4y agoIs there a word for a “bad man”? The anti mensch, as it were?
- 0_____0 4y agoschmuck, unless you want to get real specific about it
- deleted 4y ago[deleted]
- 1letterunixname 4y agoOf course there are: putz, schmuck, kadokhes, khnyok, khamer, or kholerye.