Take Back Brouhaha!
Comment of the week
December 02, 2011
(Ravi Joshi/Tablet Magazine)
Winner gets a free Nextbook Press book appropriate to his or her comment (if he or she emails me at [email protected] with his or her mailing address).
This week’s winner is “Geoff,” who suggested, apropos my report on the insidious origins of the word “brouhaha”: “So let’s reclaim it, the way the LGBT movement has reclaimed ‘queer.’ Then the ‘ha-ha’ will be on the anti-Semites.”
Good thinkin’! Geoff’s interest in power and linguistics nets him a copy of Ilan Stavans’ Resurrecting Hebrew.
‘Brouhaha’ Provokes a You-Know-What
Resurrecting Hebrew [Nextbook Press]
Marc Tracy is a staff writer at The New Republic, and was previously a staff writer at Tablet. He tweets @marcatracy.
