From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ori@helicontech.co.il (Ori Idan) Date: Sun, 11 May 2014 08:14:06 +0300 Subject: [TUHS] An amusing error message In-Reply-To: <20140510223942.e6o0M3U0%sdaoden@yandex.com> References: <20140509210729.6D80618C09B@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> <20140510002011.IEnjtHhZ%sdaoden@yandex.com> <8AE10DB9-3685-4E07-AA94-B991D41D8D9D@sdf.org> <20140510115158.x+L+UNYY%sdaoden@yandex.com> <20140510201801.GE17946@mercury.ccil.org> <20140510223942.e6o0M3U0%sdaoden@yandex.com> Message-ID: On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 12:39 AM, Steffen Nurpmeso 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 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 > _______________________________________________ > TUHS mailing list > TUHS at minnie.tuhs.org > https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: