Once upon a time (in a galaxy far, far away) I tried to track down the saying about "a language is a dialect with an army and a navy" (or whatever, approx like that). I found Weinreich referring to a night school class he taught in the Bronx, in Yivo Bleter, ca.1945. That is, he said that it was one of his students who said that, or so he said.
Did someone on this list actually say that Yiddish was only a dialect of German? Well heck. Stephen D. Corrsin Assistant Director for Acquisitions New York Public Library 917 229-9508 718 472-4605 fax scorr...@nypl.org --- Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: hasaf...@osu.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html History: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/history.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
