At 02:52 PM 5/5/97 +0200, gavin_steyn_at_eft__ad2@mail.icomverse.com wrote:

he's no genius.  He is davka (can't think of a good English word for this, 
probably "contrary") to the point of getting them into trouble, his

schemes tend

  "Davka," for those who may be puzzled, is a Hebrew/Yiddish word, that
like much of Yiddish, is difficult to translate because of the wealth of
connotations associated with it. 
Nu (a word that is impossible to translate)? 

                                                                  dml