I mean, I'm from NYC so I'm used to Yiddish loanwords, but that's not what
Manager is doing -- this isn't how she's always talked. She found out LW
is Jewish and started deliberately talking to her in as much Yiddish as
possible in that clumsy meant-to-connect-but-actually-othering way.
In my first comment I linked to a thread where another woman described
someone trying to talk to her in pseudo-AAVE (I have also had people do
this to me, ugh) for a possibly clearer illustration of how this process
goes.
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I mean, I'm from NYC so I'm used to Yiddish loanwords, but that's not what Manager is doing -- this isn't how she's always talked. She found out LW is Jewish and started deliberately talking to her in as much Yiddish as possible in that clumsy meant-to-connect-but-actually-othering way.
In my first comment I linked to a thread where another woman described someone trying to talk to her in pseudo-AAVE (I have also had people do this to me, ugh) for a possibly clearer illustration of how this process goes.