On 22 Nov 2005 08:47:05 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shmuel
Metz , Seymour J.) wrote:
>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.
According to that article, there was
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 wi
On 21 Nov 2005 12:33:11 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shmuel Metz ,
Seymour J.) wrote:
>Yiddish is written using Hebrew[1] letters; anything that you see
>using the Roman alphabet is simply a transliteration and is
>intrinsically nonstandard. I believe that the word is a composit of a
>German shlie m
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