Only English... the Yiddish version

[Dennis Baron]

gewalt! what bubbemeises.
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Dennis Baron
Professor of English and Linguistics
Department of English
University of Illinois
608 S. Wright St.
Urbana, IL 61801

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On Sep 7, 2008, at 8:10 PM, David Bergdahl wrote:

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> Subject:      Only English... the Yiddish version
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> There may be those among you who support including Spanish as our
> national
> language. I for one am dead set against it!
>
> We should preserve the sanctity of the English language.
>
> To all the shlemiels, shlemazels, nebbishes, nudniks, klutzes, putzes,
> shlubs, shmoes, shmucks, nogoodniks, and momzers that are lurking
> out there
> in the crowd, I just wanted to say that I, for one, get sentimental
> when I
> think about English and its place in our society.
>
> To tell the truth, it makes me so farklempt, I'm fit to plotz. This
> whole
> schmeer gets me broyges. When I hear these mavens and luftmenschen
> kvetching
> about our national language. What chutzpah!
>
> These shmegeges can tout their shlock about the cultural and
> linguistic
> diversity of our country and of English itself, but I, for one, am not
> buying their shtick. It's all so much dreck, as far as I'm
> concerned. I
> exhort you all to be menshen about this and stand up to their
> fardrayte
> arguments and meshugganah, farshtunkene assertions. It wouldn't be
> kosher to
> do anything else.
>
> Remember, when all is said and done, we have English and they've got
> bubkes!
> The whole myseh is a pain in the tuchas!
>
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