Hebonics! Just shows that some in the academy are educated beyond their ability to think simply. Most of his examples could have come straight from the Joys of Yiddish, if they didn't actually. At least Leo Rosten, who by the way is long gone, didn't take himself seriously. This sounds like some of those new syndromes that medicine has invented. Insomnia is now called Sleep interruption syndrome, and there is a syndrome which is a long phrase which merely means shyness. Give me a Break! Sheesh.