to google/should be "who is a Slavic speaker?"
Deborah Hoffman
lino59 at AMERITECH.NET
Mon Nov 19 22:06:42 UTC 2007
Vera nicht gedaiget, ich hob nur a bissel shpass gemacht!
I really don't see how Wexler reasonably conclude that the Slavicisms in Yiddish can result from a Slavic origin, as opposed to an infiltration from many years of later co-existence. If you go to Williamsburg you see signs that say "Vindos gefixed" and hear "Di kenn nicht kayin chooingam (chewing gum) oif Shabbes" as English has been taken in.
Although I suppose the kayin should be at the end, where all proper Germanic verbs go...
>Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 22:17:09 +0200
>From: Vera Beljakova <atacama at GLOBAL.CO.ZA>
>Subject: Re: "who is a Slavic speaker?"
>
>Sorry,=0AYiddish is based on German and orginated in German-speaking
>territory
>Vera Beljakova
>Johannesburg
>
--- Original Message ------=0A=C2=A0From:Deborah
>>Hoffman
>>Subject:=5BSEELANGS=5D to google/should be =22who is a Slavic
>>speaker?=
>>I've been trying to convince my husband
>>for years that Yiddish is a Slavic language, at least certain
>> geographical permutations of it=2E If this could replace the who is a Jew
>>controversy, I would be all for it
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