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Google Goes Yiddish
Jewish World Review ^
| Feb. 10, 2004
| Steve Lipman
Posted on 02/27/2004 9:36:03 AM PST by nickcarraway
If you're a traditionalist, you probably don't. "In the shtetl," where Eastern European Jews' language of preference developed, "there weren't such things," says Miriam Hoffman, professor of Yiddish and Yiddish literature at Columbia University. No computers, no Internet, no on-line features that perused databases.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Israel; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: google; internet; jewish; language; narishkayt; searchengines; technology; yiddish
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To: nickcarraway
To: nickcarraway
Finally!
To: nickcarraway
Still trying to figure out what the big deal is. "OOOOH. a web based language translator! Wow!!!!!"
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posted on
02/27/2004 9:40:18 AM PST
by
BSunday
(I'm not the bad guy)
To: NativeNewYorker
We still need Google Ladino :-)
To: nickcarraway
Its at www.jewgle.com
not really
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posted on
02/27/2004 10:31:11 AM PST
by
Paradox
(Cogito ergo Womb.)
To: nickcarraway
Yiddish is the high literary form of German.
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posted on
02/27/2004 10:50:16 AM PST
by
Thud
To: Thud
I hope you were joking. The truth is the opposite of what you said.
Over the course of the greater part of a millennium, Yiddish went from a Germanic dialect to a full-fledged language. To put it plainly, Yiddish came from the German language and not the other way around.
To: An American In Dairyland
"German is a language fit only for speaking to horses."
Of course I was joking.
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posted on
02/27/2004 12:45:33 PM PST
by
Thud
To: nickcarraway
Google Goes Yiddish Mazltov!
To: Thud
I boss my kids around in German - the language of command.
It doesn't work.
To: Paradox; Alouette; SJackson; Lazamataz
Joooooogle!
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posted on
02/27/2004 12:50:05 PM PST
by
Petronski
(John Kerry looks like . . . like . . . weakness.)
To: nickcarraway
Nu, un far vuss darf men dus nitzen? Azah shleppenish, yetzt darf ikh shoyn gayn iberzetzen mayne alleh bletter. Velkhe shprakh hot shoyn noch nit zayn aigen Google?
Ikh vais shoyn: targum
Translation for the Yiddishly impaired:
Nu, and why should I use it? Such a drag, now I have to go and translate all my web pages.
What language still doesn't have its own Google?
Oh, I know: Aramaic
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posted on
02/27/2004 1:10:25 PM PST
by
Alouette
(Atlantis -- the Real Palestinian State)
To: An American In Dairyland
Thanks for setting that straight, Yiddish is such a wonderfully expressive language, I'm surprised that American English hasn't borrowed more words from it.
Now, the big question, will Google go Ebonics?
To: 1bigdictator; 1st-P-In-The-Pod; 2sheep; a_witness; adam_az; af_vet_rr; agrace; ...
Ver gloybt az Yiddish iz shoyn a "toyter" oder "shtarbendike" shrapkh zoll tzuhern vi shayn mayne einiklach reden. Anyone who thinks that Yiddish is a "dead" or "dying" language should listen to my grandchildren speak it.
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posted on
02/27/2004 1:29:40 PM PST
by
Alouette
(Mitul d'min kadam Shemayo malchusa v'shalim b'ammaya)
To: Alouette
LOL!
I had not thought you were old enough to have grandchildren!
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posted on
02/27/2004 1:33:31 PM PST
by
tiamat
("Just a Bronze-Age Gal, Trapped in a Techno World!")
To: hunter112
hunter112 wrote:
Thanks for setting that straight, Yiddish is such a wonderfully expressive language, I'm surprised that American English hasn't borrowed more words from it.
You just didn't grow up in the right place!
I didn't realise til I left home that not everyone knew what "shlepp" meant! Nor "yutz", or "mashuga" or "schmaltz" or....
And I KNOW I am spelling those wrong... HEARD the words. Never spelt them!
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posted on
02/27/2004 1:39:03 PM PST
by
tiamat
("Just a Bronze-Age Gal, Trapped in a Techno World!")
To: Alouette
Nu, un far vuss darf men dus nitzen? Para ke no vos olvidesh la lingua, la istoria, i la kultura de vuetros padres djudios de alemania.
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posted on
02/27/2004 1:42:57 PM PST
by
Polybius
To: Alouette
shrapkh sprapkh=shprakh (ikh hob a tzubrokhen finger un s'iz shver tzu shrayben) --I broke my finger and it's hard to type wearing a splint.
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posted on
02/27/2004 1:44:09 PM PST
by
Alouette
(Mitul d'min kadam Shemayo malchusa v'shalim b'ammaya)
To: nickcarraway
IIRC the Muslims were seething about google for some dang reason since one of the two founders is Jewish
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posted on
02/27/2004 2:05:17 PM PST
by
dennisw
(“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.”)
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