[TUHS] An amusing error message

[John Cowan]

Gregg Levine scripsit:

> Let us also consider the dialect of Yiddish. It contains many
> expressions originally in German, and an equally ungrammatical
> smattering of Hebrew.

I know this is said in jest, but to speak in earnest for a moment,
Yiddish hasn't borrowed much from German: rather, Yiddish and modern
German are descended from a common ancestor, and so Yiddish is no more
ungrammatical German than English is ungrammatical Dutch.

See also generally <http://mercury.ccil.org/~cowan/essential.html>

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