LL-L "Language varieties" 2002.05.01 (04) [E]

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From: Holger Weigelt <platt at HOLGER-WEIGELT.DE>
Subject: LL-L "Language varieties" 2002.04.30 (02) [E]

>From: "Randy Elzinga" <frisiancow at hotmail.com>
>Subject: Cochere
>
>Dear Lowlanders,
>
>I recently received an email from someone in which she told me that one
>of
>her grandparents spoke something called Cochere, which, in a subsequent
>email, she said was perhaps a "dialect offshoot of Low Saxon."  Is this
>the case?  Can anyone say any more about it?
>
>Randy Elzinga
>frisiancow at hotmail.com

Hello Randy !
My first reaction on Your question was to assume the language in
question
could be Yiddish but when I thought it over again I got a further idea
by
changing the pronounciation of "Cocher". It is the "chochemer loschn" I
mean. The word is Yiddish resp. Hebrew. The meaning as far as I know is
somewhat like "language of those who have knowledge". It is what we in
German call "Rotwelsch", a type of secret language used by non-Romany
travelling people. It is not really a single language but a more general
term for such languages mostly based on local dialects (that have been
changed in several ways to ensure the speaker not to be understood by
outgroop-people) mixed with much Hebrew loans.
Could this help You ?

Kind regards, Holger

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