Comments on: Most jaw-dropping press description, ever http://www.yourish.com/2007/04/30/3071 Cutting straight to the point Fri, 19 Mar 2010 07:39:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Jon Ihle http://www.yourish.com/2007/04/30/3071/comment-page-1#comment-26012 Jon Ihle Wed, 02 May 2007 11:03:22 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2007/04/30/3071#comment-26012 As someone who has written about kosher supply for a readership (Irish) that knows next to nothing about Jews, I'd forgive the reporter for this. Jews are pretty exotic in this part of the world, so identifying them as such in order to highlight the significance of a quoted source is good journalistic practice. A less jarring formulation could have been found, though: "Brickman, who is now able to buy the kosher bread she needs, praised the baker..." Anyway a lot of the things that would signal to a Jew that Brickman is Jewish would be lost on most Scottish readers. Sabba is absolutely right, btw. http://www.tribune.ie/2007/04/01/84287.html As someone who has written about kosher supply for a readership (Irish) that knows next to nothing about Jews, I’d forgive the reporter for this. Jews are pretty exotic in this part of the world, so identifying them as such in order to highlight the significance of a quoted source is good journalistic practice. A less jarring formulation could have been found, though: “Brickman, who is now able to buy the kosher bread she needs, praised the baker…” Anyway a lot of the things that would signal to a Jew that Brickman is Jewish would be lost on most Scottish readers.

Sabba is absolutely right, btw. http://www.tribune.ie/2007/04/01/84287.html

]]> By: Laura SF http://www.yourish.com/2007/04/30/3071/comment-page-1#comment-26008 Laura SF Wed, 02 May 2007 01:23:02 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2007/04/30/3071#comment-26008 Frankly, it sounds like it's translated from a foreign language! Is the author a native speaker of English? ...Or maybe the original writer left it out because it was obvious from the context, but the editor thought it should be stated. But since the usual template wouldn't work ("Stephanie Brickman, who is Jewish, said..."), they just tacked on this epithet. Either way, I agree it's bizarre. Frankly, it sounds like it’s translated from a foreign language! Is the author a native speaker of English?

…Or maybe the original writer left it out because it was obvious from the context, but the editor thought it should be stated. But since the usual template wouldn’t work (“Stephanie Brickman, who is Jewish, said…”), they just tacked on this epithet. Either way, I agree it’s bizarre.

]]> By: Dread Pirate Gryphon http://www.yourish.com/2007/04/30/3071/comment-page-1#comment-25993 Dread Pirate Gryphon Tue, 01 May 2007 13:51:55 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2007/04/30/3071#comment-25993 I dunno. Otherwise being redundant, repetetive and repetitious, it doesn't really jog the needles on my meter. It SHOULD be obvious from the context that Ms. Brickman is Jewish, but I don't think it's anything but overkill in this case. It's sort of like saying, "Catholic woman Mary McGillicuddy was happy about the new rosary shop in her neighborhood." No? Nu? I dunno. Otherwise being redundant, repetetive and repetitious, it doesn’t really jog the needles on my meter. It SHOULD be obvious from the context that Ms. Brickman is Jewish, but I don’t think it’s anything but overkill in this case.

It’s sort of like saying, “Catholic woman Mary McGillicuddy was happy about the new rosary shop in her neighborhood.”

No? Nu?

]]> By: Mark James http://www.yourish.com/2007/04/30/3071/comment-page-1#comment-25968 Mark James Mon, 30 Apr 2007 19:14:47 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2007/04/30/3071#comment-25968 Meryl should be on a dictionary usage panel: http://www.answers.com/-ess Meryl should be on a dictionary usage panel: http://www.answers.com/-ess

]]> By: Sabba Hillel http://www.yourish.com/2007/04/30/3071/comment-page-1#comment-25967 Sabba Hillel Mon, 30 Apr 2007 18:55:22 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2007/04/30/3071#comment-25967 After all, it is so unusual for a Jew to praise someone for providing kosher food. She should have refused the challah and insisted on eating traif bread (or boycotted the bakery because it is owned by a German) After all, it is so unusual for a Jew to praise someone for providing kosher food. She should have refused the challah and insisted on eating traif bread (or boycotted the bakery because it is owned by a German)

]]> By: Chris L. http://www.yourish.com/2007/04/30/3071/comment-page-1#comment-25963 Chris L. Mon, 30 Apr 2007 18:14:12 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2007/04/30/3071#comment-25963 Or imagine if it had been a man. "The Jew Steven Brickman." Or imagine if it had been a man. “The Jew Steven Brickman.”

]]> By: Eric J http://www.yourish.com/2007/04/30/3071/comment-page-1#comment-25962 Eric J Mon, 30 Apr 2007 18:09:31 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/2007/04/30/3071#comment-25962 At least it wasn't "Jewess Stephanie Brickman." Or "Daughter of pigs and dogs..." At least it wasn’t “Jewess Stephanie Brickman.”

Or “Daughter of pigs and dogs…”

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