to google/should be "who is a Slavic speaker?"

[Vanchu, Anthony J. (JSC-AH)[TTI]]

Except that "kayin" is a negative (akin to nikakoi in Russian) and not a
verb...
So it should probably stay where it is, modifying "chooingam"...
 

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Subject: [SEELANGS] to google/should be "who is a Slavic speaker?"

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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