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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at jewishworldreview.com ...


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

Use the Google Interface in Your Language

Elmer Fudd

 

Google

  Web   Images   Gwoups   Diwectowy  

 
  Advanced Seawch
  Pwefewences
  Wanguage Toows



Aww About Google - Google.com in English

©2004 Google - Seawching 4,285,199,774 web pages


21 posted on 02/27/2004 2:26:52 PM PST by thatcher
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To: Simcha7; Yaelle
Don'tknowhowtospellitinYiddishPING!!!!!!!
22 posted on 02/27/2004 2:59:32 PM PST by Brad’s Gramma (Pray for America and Israel)
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To: Thud
"German is a language fit only for speaking to horses."

Knock it off. I'll have you know that Germans have more intelligence per square head than any other people.

23 posted on 02/27/2004 3:03:21 PM PST by Nick Danger (carpe ductum)
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To: Nick Danger
Want me to start talking about German cooking?

FOOD AS DUTY

24 posted on 02/27/2004 3:18:00 PM PST by Thud
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To: thatcher; Admin Moderator
Oh boy. Oh BOY! The weekend's coming! The TROLLS are coming! Mods...think of the fun you could have, translating a whole bunch of insults to them in ... well, take you pick which language!

WHOO HOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
25 posted on 02/27/2004 3:27:34 PM PST by Brad’s Gramma (Pray for America and Israel)
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To: Alouette; All
OHH COOLLLLL Rack ittt

Rack Google YEAH BABY
26 posted on 02/27/2004 3:30:07 PM PST by SevenofNine (Not everybody in it for truth, justice, and the American way=Det Lennie Briscoe)
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To: Brad's Gramma
Jeeesh! Look at the list! 

They have everything : 

Google currently offers the following interface languages:

Where do you get off calling me a 'troll'? I thought that the Elmer Fudd was cute; Google probably does also. Would you have preferred "Hacker" ? or "Scots Gaelic"?

27 posted on 02/27/2004 4:20:29 PM PST by thatcher
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To: thatcher
NO NO NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!


YOU'RE not a troll!!! Apparently you've not received the many, varied and oh so love-able pings to threads you've never visited...Freepmails from folk who've been banned...you must work HARDER to attain this status!!!!!!

I was thinking how much fun it would be to attack THEM with a language they couldn't translate. They are, after all, trolls. They have less I.Q. than a gnat.
28 posted on 02/27/2004 4:40:53 PM PST by Brad’s Gramma (Pray for America and Israel)
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To: Brad's Gramma
NO NO NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!

YOU'RE not a troll!!! Apparently you've not received the many, varied and oh so love-able pings to threads you've never visited...Freepmails from folk who've been banned...you must work HARDER to attain this status!!!!!!

I was thinking how much fun it would be to attack THEM with a language they couldn't translate. They are, after all, trolls. They have less I.Q. than a gnat.

Please pardon me!

Be Well, Peace, Love and Grooviness!

29 posted on 02/27/2004 5:39:00 PM PST by thatcher (The rule of law has been destroyed by our politicians.)
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To: thatcher
Try your Google HERE!!!!
30 posted on 02/27/2004 5:45:09 PM PST by Brad’s Gramma (Pray for America and Israel)
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To: nickcarraway
I tried a Yiddish Google search and found this under Putz:


31 posted on 02/27/2004 5:50:32 PM PST by Joe 6-pack ("We deal in hard calibers and hot lead." - Roland Deschaines)
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To: Thud
Want me to start talking about German cooking?

Heard about the new German-Chinese restaurant? The food is great, but an hour later, you're hungry for power.

32 posted on 02/27/2004 7:08:08 PM PST by Nick Danger (carpe ductum)
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To: Nick Danger
Hear about the New York law firms who just opened offices in Denmark? The firms are Rosen-Krantz and Guilder-Stern.
33 posted on 02/27/2004 8:14:35 PM PST by RightWingAtheist
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To: hunter112
This goy thinks that Free Republic should do its part in encouraging the Yiddish revival. Hereforth, any anti-Israel articles should be preceeded by a "Varf Alert!"
34 posted on 02/27/2004 8:16:30 PM PST by RightWingAtheist
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To: nickcarraway
"In the shtetl,"

Didn't Schmelvis Preussley sing that in an attempt to be socially relevant?

35 posted on 02/27/2004 8:18:45 PM PST by RightWingAtheist
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To: RightWingAtheist
Shalom!

You wrote..."This goy thinks"

Are You Really A...a...PAGAN?!

Oy Vey ; )

May it Never Be.

36 posted on 02/27/2004 8:34:57 PM PST by Simcha7 ((The Plumb - Line has been Drawn, T'shuvah/Return for The Kingdom of HaShem is at hand!))
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To: Simcha7
Yep, I'm a pagan-Gaelic to be precise. Were I to became a ger tzedek, I would have to change my name to either MacIsaac or McGoldrick.
37 posted on 02/27/2004 8:42:26 PM PST by RightWingAtheist
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To: Brad's Gramma
Oy vey! I'm just kvetching here sitting on my tuchas with the whole mishpocha asleep! I was about to shlep up to bed and plotz when nu? Google's gone yiddish? I'm all verklempt!!
38 posted on 02/27/2004 10:24:50 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: Yaelle
LOL!!!!!!!! NO FAIR!!!!

WHAT did you say????? hahahahaaaaaa
39 posted on 02/27/2004 10:26:27 PM PST by Brad’s Gramma (Pray for America and Israel)
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To: RightWingAtheist
I agree. Yiddish is bastardized German, best left in the ashes of formerly Jewish Europe. Ladino is a far more interesting language-- not to mention practical, as Ladino speakers can communicate freely with the entire Spanish world.

That being said, a big part of me thinks that the Jews of Israel should chuck all languages of the exile, and embrace only Hebrew-- language of the redemption. Those of us in the US should limit ourselves to languages we need for our existence, rather than worshiping the dead Jewish world of Europe.

Then again, I'm Sephardi, so Yiddish has no appeal to me-- except for the mild revulsion I feel when I hear Yiddish triumphed as the supreme Jewish cultural stamp. Honey, it ain't my culture.

Then again, I'm also a Sabbath desecrator, so maybe I shouldn't talk at all.

40 posted on 02/27/2004 10:31:42 PM PST by ChicagoHebrew
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