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The first ‘Harry Potter’ book is now available in Yiddish
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| 8/2/20
| Gabe Friedman
Posted on 02/08/2020 9:56:35 AM PST by Eleutheria5
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Well, how about that. Must get a copy sometime soon.
To: Eleutheria5
To: Eleutheria5
Um, OK. If you’re bored with that, you can always read Winnie the Pooh in Latin.
They have a different word for everything
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posted on
02/08/2020 10:01:58 AM PST
by
dsrtsage
(Complexity is merely simplicity lacking imagination)
To: Eleutheria5
Haven’t the Jews suffered enough?
To: Eleutheria5
The only people speaking Yiddish these days are certain Hasidic sects and why do they want to punish their children with Hairy Poofter?
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posted on
02/08/2020 10:25:25 AM PST
by
Clemenza
To: Clemenza
Hast du gesehen in deine Leben?
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posted on
02/08/2020 10:27:42 AM PST
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: Eleutheria5
“That Professor Snape. He is such a schmuck!”
To: Eleutheria5
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posted on
02/08/2020 10:35:14 AM PST
by
polymuser
(It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and so few by deceit. Noel Coward)
To: Eleutheria5; Gamecock; SaveFerris; redshawk
“Harry! You ratted me out! And you didn’t say hello?”
“...hello...?”
“...hello!”
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posted on
02/08/2020 10:55:57 AM PST
by
Olog-hai
("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
To: Larry Lucido
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posted on
02/08/2020 11:01:43 AM PST
by
redshawk
( I want my red balloon. ( https://youtu.be/V12H2mteniE))
To: polymuser
Ha.. and I can still speak a rare SoCal language. My friends and I used it amongst our group. Check out movie “Slums of Beverly Hills” the 2 girl characters esp. Also I did learn a lot of Yiddish as a child mainly from movies and comedians, and a few associates. Leo Rosten did a wonderful book on “The Joys of Yiddish”. Hard to find a copy nowdays. P.S. I also learned a whole ‘nother language from my Texas grandmother that defies description. Whew !!
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posted on
02/08/2020 11:07:30 AM PST
by
ghostkatz
(catslivesmatter....all 9 of them)
To: redshawk
Harry....Hello.....Answer that phone!
To: Clemenza
It’s still spoken widely, but not nearly as much as it once was. I picked up my Yiddish mostly from living and working in Boro Park and Crown Heights, but it comes in handy in Israel in lots of different places.
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posted on
02/08/2020 11:23:12 AM PST
by
Eleutheria5
("SHUT UP!" he explained.)
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Doesn’t Babelfish have a English to Yiddish translation mode ?
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posted on
02/08/2020 11:47:01 AM PST
by
elbook
To: elbook
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posted on
02/08/2020 12:36:26 PM PST
by
polymuser
(It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and so few by deceit. Noel Coward)
To: Eleutheria5
Must not be much demand for that.
What is that, two decades later ?!?
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posted on
02/08/2020 2:35:57 PM PST
by
Pikachu_Dad
("the media are selling you a line of soap)
To: Pikachu_Dad
I’m surprised that anyone was interested enough to translate it. But I’d be interested in reading it.
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posted on
02/08/2020 3:38:39 PM PST
by
Eleutheria5
("SHUT UP!" he explained.)
To: Clemenza
There is considerable academic interest in Yiddish among people who do not speak it as a first language. Mostly Jews.
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posted on
02/08/2020 4:47:23 PM PST
by
Salman
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