Why We’re All in a Shmood
The Yiddishism kids love
by Caleb Madison
Feb 28, 2022
2 minutes
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, like its cool cousins and , has become an omnipresent multipurpose internet buzzword, used to indicate one’s identification with an image, aesthetic, demeanor, or attitude. Post a video of a Rollerblader eating it in a public park with the caption “mood,” and we get a general sense of, meaning “state of mind,” hasn’t changed much semantically over time—besides recently gaining the ability to function on its own as a general affirmative, like or . But in recent years it has exploded in usage, producing colloquial variants like , and my personal favorite, .
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