Talk:Joe Shmoe
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"Shm"
editThe following words: "This process was adapted in English from the use of the "Shm" prefix in several Yiddish words that have negative meanings." I think is only partially true. The part which is true is that in Yiddish, when someone wants to dismiss something, he would say: fancy "shmancy", horse "shmorse", pizza "shmizza"; and the letters "shm" would be used in this way, in any sentence where these letters stick; but who says that it came from the Yiddish word that has a negative meaning and happens to start with these letters? To the best of my knowledge from all Yiddish words starting with these letters only one has a negative meaning; the rest are normal words. Itzse (talk) 21:58, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
"Shm" Prefix
editCalling "Schm"/"Shm" a prefix implies that it's a morpheme and thus carries meaning independent from whatever it gets attached to. Since this is not the case, i.e., it has no morphemic-level meaning, it would be better to call it a word-inital consonant sound cluster. Thoughts?Savacek (talk) 17:28, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
- I know it's been nine years but it's definitely a prefix. Its meaning is, in the vast majority of common usage, to diminish or negate whatever word it's prefixed to. — QuintessentialAnomaly [talk] 08:38, 24 December 2020 (UTC)
Merge with "Average Joe"
editI think Joe Shmoe isn't dissimilar enough from Average Joe and ought to be merged, or potentially given his own subsection within Average Joe. Brauden (talk) 19:53, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
- Support a merger. Please continue the discussion here. — AjaxSmack 02:43, 18 March 2013 (UTC)