to google/should be "who is a Slavic speaker?"
Paul B. Gallagher
paulbg at PBG-TRANSLATIONS.COM
Mon Nov 19 17:32:51 UTC 2007
Deborah Hoffman wrote:
> I've been trying to convince my husband for years that Yiddish is a
> Slavic language, at least certain geographical permutations of it. If
> this could replace the who is a Jew controversy, I would be all for
> it.
You might as well ask whether an American of mixed heritage belongs to
one or the other culture. Am I Irish because my father was Irish, or
Jewish because my mother was Jewish? Answer -- yes.
--
War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left.
--
Paul B. Gallagher
pbg translations, inc.
"Russian Translations That Read Like Originals"
http://pbg-translations.com
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