> The axiom nudity = money, is very sick and I’m afraid this will have consequence with the time on many levels of our culture. And obviously, internet with this logic of censoring/making pay will ruin something in Arts, when free porn will remain out of control and available everywhere. It means that anyone will have more chance to meet nudity in raw porn stuff,…
It’s a funny word, “schmooze.” It comes from the Yiddish, shmuesn, and before that from Hebrew, approximately shemuoth, according to my Webster’s.
Leo Rosten, in The Joys of #Yiddish, says it refers to a “friendly, gossipy, prolonged, heart-to-heart talk.” No other word, he avers, “conveys ‘heart-to-heart chit-chat’ as warmly.”