(July 18, 2021 at 3:06 pm)onlinebiker Wrote: There's a Yiddish word for someone who sucks at so many things......
Schlub.
‘Shmegegge’ is closer. ‘Schlub’ has an almost affectionate quality, a sense of someone who tries hard but tends to fail through bad luck as much as anything. ‘Shmegegge’ carries the sense of someone whose ineptitude and persistent foolishness merits contempt and derision.
You can feel sorry for a schlub, never for a shmegegge.
Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax