Google Goes Yiddish

Jewish World Review ^ | Feb. 10, 2004 | Steve Lipman

[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.

[thatcher]

Use the Google Interface in Your Language

Elmer Fudd

 

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[Brad’s Gramma]

Don'tknowhowtospellitinYiddishPING!!!!!!!

[Nick Danger]

"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.

[Thud]

Want me to start talking about German cooking?

FOOD AS DUTY

[Brad’s Gramma]

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!!!!

[SevenofNine]

OHH COOLLLLL Rack ittt

Rack Google YEAH BABY

[thatcher]

Jeeesh! Look at the list! 

They have everything : 

Google currently offers the following interface languages:
Afrikaans Albanian Amharic Arabic Azerbaijani Basque Belarusian Bengali Bihari Bork, bork, bork! Bosnian Breton Bulgarian Catalan Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Traditional) Croatian Czech Danish Dutch	Elmer Fudd English Esperanto Estonian Faroese Filipino Finnish French Frisian Galician Georgian German Greek Guarani Gujarati Hacker Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Icelandic	Indonesian Interlingua Irish Italian Japanese Javanese Kannada Klingon Korean Kyrgyz Latin Latvian Lithuanian Macedonian Malay Malayalam Maltese Marathi Nepali Norwegian	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Occitan Oriya Persian Pig Latin Polish Portuguese (Brazil) Portuguese (Portugal) Punjabi Romanian Russian Scots Gaelic Serbian Serbo-Croatian Sesotho Sinhalese Slovak Slovenian Spanish Sundanese	Swahili Swedish Tamil Telugu Thai Tigrinya Turkish Turkmen Twi Ukrainian Urdu Uzbek Vietnamese Welsh Xhosa Yiddish Zulu

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"?

[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.

[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.

Please pardon me!

Be Well, Peace, Love and Grooviness!

[Brad’s Gramma]

Try your Google HERE!!!!

[Joe 6-pack]

I tried a Yiddish Google search and found this under Putz:

[Nick Danger]

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.

[RightWingAtheist]

Hear about the New York law firms who just opened offices in Denmark? The firms are Rosen-Krantz and Guilder-Stern.

[RightWingAtheist]

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!"

[RightWingAtheist]

"In the shtetl,"

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

[Simcha7]

Shalom!

You wrote..."This goy thinks"

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

Oy Vey ; )

May it Never Be.

[RightWingAtheist]

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.

[Yaelle]

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!!

[Brad’s Gramma]

LOL!!!!!!!! NO FAIR!!!!

WHAT did you say????? hahahahaaaaaa

[ChicagoHebrew]

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.