From: cowan@mercury.ccil.org (John Cowan)
Subject: [TUHS] An amusing error message
Date: Sat, 10 May 2014 16:18:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140510201801.GE17946@mercury.ccil.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC5iaNGGjvnaa-HTs0bpHtsDMn9G---K_1=gyaRSHraNAib3iw@mail.gmail.com>
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>
--
John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan at ccil.org
Your worships will perhaps be thinking that it is an easy thing
to blow up a dog? [Or] to write a book?
--Don Quixote, Introduction
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-10 20:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-09 21:07 Noel Chiappa
2014-05-09 23:20 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2014-05-09 23:44 ` Gilbert Morgan
2014-05-10 10:51 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2014-05-10 15:05 ` Gregg Levine
2014-05-10 20:18 ` John Cowan [this message]
2014-05-10 21:39 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2014-05-10 22:20 ` John Cowan
2014-05-10 23:30 ` Kurt H Maier
2014-05-10 23:41 ` John Cowan
2014-05-11 5:14 ` Ori Idan
2014-05-11 6:00 ` John Cowan
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