to google/should be who is a Slavic speaker?
colkitto@rogers.com
colkitto at ROGERS.COM
Mon Nov 19 22:33:16 UTC 2007
Isn't "kayin" rather "kauen" - chew (cognate with zhevat, of course)?
"nicht kein" would sound very odd in German, and I suspect, Yiddish as well
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From: Vanchu, Anthony J. (JSC-AH)[TTI] anthony.j.vanchu at NASA.GOV
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 16:14:20 -0600
To: SEELANGS at BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] to google/should be "who is a Slavic speaker?"
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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From: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list
[mailto:SEELANGS at BAMA.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Deborah Hoffman
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 4:07 PM
To: SEELANGS at BAMA.UA.EDU
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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