[SJackson]

Middle East and terrorism, occasional political and Jewish issues Ping List. High Volume

If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.

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Nice, as long as majors understand the nature of future career choices.

[Eleutheria5]

In...colleges? I picked up my knowledge of the language on the streets of Brooklyn, and in 770 Eastern Parkway. They’re actually paying tuition to learn our charming little mishmosh? Meshugas.

[rmlew]

And which dialect will they use, Yekke, Litvish, or Southern/Polish?

I remember at my Bar Mitzvah, two cousins from different sides of the family were arguing in Yiddish, but couldn't understand each other. They were drunk, hard of hearing, and slurring in different dialects. I'd didn't get the humor at the time. My mother, who used to teach Yiddish at CUNY, came over to mediate, but suddenly started laughing hysterically. The two participants were a rabbinic student turned communist and an assimilated chemist turned hasid. A daughter-in-law of one of the participants comes over and says that they were arguing over a poem written by another relative and that one or both are remembering it incorrectly.