In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 11/21/2005
at 02:09 PM, Howard Brazee [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
This weekend's episode of Michael Feldman's Whad'Ya Know? had an
interview with someone who wrote a book about the origins of Yiddish.
I never would have guessed (I'm a Gentile) that it started off with
Frenchmen moving to Germany, adding on some Hebrew for
obfuscation.
No obfuscation. The speakers of early Yiddish used Hebrew[1] words
that they were familiar with, just as you use French, Italian and
Spanish words that you are familiar with.
But if you're into obfuscation,
I eschew obfuscation, except for purposes of humor.
try http://thc.org/root/phun/unmaintain.html
How To Write Unmaintainable Code
Thanks but no thanks.
Ensure a job for life ;-)
There has to be a less destructive way. I've seen too much
unmaintainable to to want to afflict someone else with more of it.
[1] And a bit later, from other languages, eventually including
English.
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Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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