[TUHS] An amusing error message
Ori Idan
ori at helicontech.co.il
Sun May 11 15:14:06 AEST 2014
On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 12:39 AM, Steffen Nurpmeso <sdaoden at yandex.com>wrote:
> I was born '72 ...
> Jiddisch does no longer exist in Germany.
> (And i'm living in the hope the borders remain where they are.)
>
> John Cowan <cowan at mercury.ccil.org> wrote:
> |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.
>
> The "Jiddisch" entry in the german Wikipedia classifies it as
> a "Middle German Dialect".
>
In Israel Yiddisch still exists and spoken mainly by old people who came
from Germany. As much as I know there is still a newspaper written in
Yiddisch.
Yiddisch writing is even stranger as it uses the Hebrew alphabet.
There is even a Yiddisch literature course in universities here.
--
Ori Idan
> --steffen
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