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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: mord on January 24, 2008, 05:31:21 AM
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anyone
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YOU mean Yidish? which is not Jewish language btw, Hebrew is.
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YOU mean Yidish? which is not Jewish language btw, Hebrew is.
Yes
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Or New York Jewish?
"Wadda ya shprechen about? Have you gone mashuganah??"
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I can speak Yiddish-accented english and argue all the time. Does that count?
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No this has to do with yesterdays posts about N's and J's ;)
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I can ask my mother. She knows it pretty well. O0
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YOU mean Yidish? which is not Jewish language btw, Hebrew is.
When someone is "speaking in Jewish" that refers to speaking Yiddish, not Hebrew.
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YOU mean Yidish? which is not Jewish language btw, Hebrew is.
When someone is "speaking in Jewish" that refers to speaking Yiddish, not Hebrew.
'Yiddish' is just the (yiddish) word for 'Jewish', so you're right.
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Yiddish, Hebrew and does anyone know Aramaic? ???
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Yiddish, Hebrew and does anyone know Aramaic? ???
The Syrian Church...
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There are a few Yiddish speaking members here.
One of the global mods speaks Yiddish.
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YOU mean Yidish? which is not Jewish language btw, Hebrew is.
Yiddish and Modern Hebrew are just as "Jewish" as each other. I can't speak it very well, my Bubbe speaks it fluently.
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There are a few Yiddish speaking members here.
One of the global mods speaks Yiddish.
Ver?
Mir?
Ich ken yiddish zaer git und hebraisch ochet.
Vas vilstu mich fragen?
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Yiddish is basically just a dialect of German..
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Yiddish is basically just a dialect of German..
True, but what does mord want to know?
Mord, chime in.
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Yes Mord - speak, and you shall be heard.
.... actually more like type, and you shall be read :P
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There are a few Yiddish speaking members here.
One of the global mods speaks Yiddish.
Ver?
Mir?
Yu Yu...
Vos tit sach?
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yiddish sounds very annoying and irritating for me.
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yiddish sounds very annoying and irritating for me.
I like the way it sounds O0
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yiddish sounds very annoying and irritating for me.
Aside from that, why would Jews continue to speak a language that is a result of oppression by the Germans? I say forget the Yiddish and learn Hebrew..
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yiddish sounds very annoying and irritating for me.
If you like Arabic better, I can speak some for you.
Naam weana bidda tihki arabi lak, sadiqi.
eesh anta bidda tihki?
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There are a few Yiddish speaking members here.
One of the global mods speaks Yiddish.
Ver?
Mir?
Yu Yu...
Vos tit sach?
Ch'ab gehat a tzvilling.
A Yingel und a maidel. Zeir Shaine kinderlach. Der Eibershte hat mir gebentcht.
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yiddish sounds very annoying and irritating for me.
I like the way it sounds O0
I like it too but I like Hebrew pronounced correctly much better.
See my audios in the JTF Hebrew Club section to learn the correct pronunciation.
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yiddish sounds very annoying and irritating for me.
Aside from that, why would Jews continue to speak a language that is a result of oppression by the Germans? I say forget the Yiddish and learn Hebrew..
I already know both so I'm good. Rabbi Kahane was fluent in both languages as well.
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There are a few Yiddish speaking members here.
One of the global mods speaks Yiddish.
Ver?
Mir?
Yu Yu...
Vos tit sach?
Ch'ab gehat a tzvilling.
A Yingel und a maidel. Zeir Shaine kinderlach. Der Eibershte hat mir gebentcht.
Mazal Tov, Mazal Tov!!!
Asach nachas.
Zeir shein!
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Well, I also thinks that the Yiddish accent speaking Hebrew sounds horrible. Sad to say I'm not fluent in either language but only speak a basic Hebrew. I don't speak any Yiddish but my father and mother are fluent in Yiddish though.
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I don't speak any Yiddish but my father and mother are fluent in Yiddish though.
So were mine, they used it as their secret language, but now I know it quite well.
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my grandfather used to call certain people tinkerlach what dies that mean
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my grandfather used to call certain people tinkerlach what dies that mean
I'm not familiar with the term but I know that tink means plaster in Yiddish so maybe it is a slang term for dolls.
What do you think?
How did he use it?
What type of people did he call tinkerlach?
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I searched on www.pass.to/glossary and couldn't find Tinkerlach.
Mord, maybe you can ask people who knew your grandfather or people who heard him say it. I can ask around and see what I get.
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I think it meant shvartza
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I think it meant shvartza
Interesting.
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Yes it migh be slang or something ask people that speak yiddish Ukraine
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Yes it migh be slang or something ask people that speak yiddish Ukraine
Where in Ukraine?
My family is from Zhitomir.
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yiddish sounds very annoying and irritating for me.
If you like Arabic better, I can speak some for you.
Naam weana bidda tihki arabi lak, sadiqi.
eesh anta bidda tihki?
Where did you learn Arabic like that ?
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I think it meant shvartza
I thought something along the lines of "gräner" meant schwartza?
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Yes it migh be slang or something ask people that speak yiddish Ukraine
Where in Ukraine?
My family is from Zhitomir.
It's not there anymore my great granparents came after the revolution i think zomachov
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yiddish sounds very annoying and irritating for me.
If you like Arabic better, I can speak some for you.
Naam weana bidda tihki arabi lak, sadiqi.
eesh anta bidda tihki?
Where did you learn Arabic like that ?
I took a course.
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yiddish sounds very annoying and irritating for me.
Aside from that, why would Jews continue to speak a language that is a result of oppression by the Germans? I say forget the Yiddish and learn Hebrew..
Who says it's the result of "opression"? It's a beautiful language.
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About that word tinkerlach.
The only thing i can come up with is, that tinker could mean tunker, like in Dutch donker.
which means dark.
lach in fact means smile.
darksmile??
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About that word tinkerlach.
The only thing i can come up with is, that tinker could mean tunker, like in Dutch donker.
which means dark.
lach in fact means smile.
darksmile??
THATS WHAT MY GRANDFATHER MUST HAVE MEANT O0 O0 :::D
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About that word tinkerlach.
The only thing i can come up with is, that tinker could mean tunker, like in Dutch donker.
which means dark.
lach in fact means smile.
darksmile??
THATS WHAT MY GRANDFATHER MUST HAVE MEANT O0 O0 :::D
In my local dialect we say "bruinsmoel"
Brownface...
lach = smile = smoel
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About that word tinkerlach.
The only thing i can come up with is, that tinker could mean tunker, like in Dutch donker.
which means dark.
lach in fact means smile.
darksmile??
THATS WHAT MY GRANDFATHER MUST HAVE MEANT O0 O0 :::D
In my local dialect we say "bruinsmoel"
Brownface...
lach = smile = smoel
YOU KNOW I WAS SO YOUNG IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN DONKERLACH
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About that word tinkerlach.
The only thing i can come up with is, that tinker could mean tunker, like in Dutch donker.
which means dark.
lach in fact means smile.
darksmile??
THATS WHAT MY GRANDFATHER MUST HAVE MEANT O0 O0 :::D
In my local dialect we say "bruinsmoel"
Brownface...
lach = smile = smoel
YOU KNOW I WAS SO YOUNG IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN DONKERLACH
Were did your grandparents live?
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About that word tinkerlach.
The only thing i can come up with is, that tinker could mean tunker, like in Dutch donker.
which means dark.
lach in fact means smile.
darksmile??
THATS WHAT MY GRANDFATHER MUST HAVE MEANT O0 O0 :::D
In my local dialect we say "bruinsmoel"
Brownface...
lach = smile = smoel
YOU KNOW I WAS SO YOUNG IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN DONKERLACH
Were did your grandparents live?
THE BRONX NY BUT MY GRANDFATHERS PARENTS WERE FROM THE UKRAINE AND AUSTRIA HIS FATHER UKRAINE MOTHER AUSTRIA
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yiddish sounds very annoying and irritating for me.
Aside from that, why would Jews continue to speak a language that is a result of oppression by the Germans? I say forget the Yiddish and learn Hebrew..
Who says it's the result of "opression"? It's a beautiful language.
Yiddish was a secret German dialect among Jews.. they had no other reason to use a secret language other than oppression. As far as it being a beautiful langauge, to each is own I guess. I personally think it's annoying, but I like Hebrew a lot..
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Lach is a plural form in Yiddish not smile.
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yiddish sounds very annoying and irritating for me.
Aside from that, why would Jews continue to speak a language that is a result of oppression by the Germans? I say forget the Yiddish and learn Hebrew..
Who says it's the result of "opression"? It's a beautiful language.
Yiddish was a secret German dialect among Jews.. they had no other reason to use a secret language other than oppression. As far as it being a beautiful langauge, to each is own I guess. I personally think it's annoying, but I like Hebrew a lot..
It's not much of a secret language.
Germans understand it very well.
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Lach is a plural form in Yiddish not smile.
thanks.
That makes more sense.
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According to Wikipedia
"The oldest surviving literary document in Yiddish is a blessing in a Hebrew prayer book from 1272"
So Yiddish is fairly old from about maybe the 1200's? ???
There are also some Slavic and Polish words in Yiddish I think ;)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yiddish
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yiddish sounds very annoying and irritating for me.
Aside from that, why would Jews continue to speak a language that is a result of oppression by the Germans? I say forget the Yiddish and learn Hebrew..
Who says it's the result of "opression"? It's a beautiful language.
Yiddish
was a secret German dialect among Jews.. they had no other reason to use a secret language other than oppression. As far as it being a beautiful langauge, to each is own I guess. I personally think it's annoying, but I like Hebrew a lot..
It's not much of a secret language.
Germans understand it very well.
Oh sure, I took courses in German and I can understand as much Yiddish as I do German, but the words that German speakers didn't understand were things like "schmuck, schlamil, putz".. etc
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Yiddish originated around the year 1000 CE so it is 1000 years old. That is why Yiddish is so important, since it was spoken for about 1000 years by nearly all the Jews of Europe which makes it the second oldest Jewish language spoken as it is tied for Aramaic in the duration of the language spoken.
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According to Wikipedia
"The oldest surviving literary document in Yiddish is a blessing in a Hebrew prayer book from 1272"
So Yiddish is fairly old from about maybe the 1200's? ???
There are also some Slavic and Polish words in Yiddish I think ;)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yiddish
Yes a few.
Zal is Russian, Zhabe is Polish so they are a few.
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Yiddish originated around the year 1000 CE so it is 1000 years old. That is why Yiddish is so important, since it was spoken for about 1000 years by nearly all the Jews of Europe which makes it the second oldest Jewish language spoken as it is tied for Aramaic in the duration of the language spoken.
Thanks alot, jdl4ever, I didn't know this. O0
It's much older than I thought O0
That just shows you it is righteous and the second oldest Jewish language O0
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Yiddish originated around the year 1000 CE so it is 1000 years old. That is why Yiddish is so important, since it was spoken for about 1000 years by nearly all the Jews of Europe which makes it the second oldest Jewish language spoken as it is tied for Aramaic in the duration of the language spoken.
True but parts of the Tanakh are written in Aramaic not Yiddish.
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Yiddish originated around the year 1000 CE so it is 1000 years old. That is why Yiddish is so important, since it was spoken for about 1000 years by nearly all the Jews of Europe which makes it the second oldest Jewish language spoken as it is tied for Aramaic in the duration of the language spoken.
True but parts of the Tanakh are written in Aramaic not Yiddish.
Select words...
But it didn't originate as a Jewish language...