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To: Jewbacca

There are some Yiddish words that even native speakers won’t use in public!......................


37 posted on 12/23/2015 7:06:39 AM PST by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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To: Red Badger

I didn’t know there were any “native” Yiddish speakers anymore.

Of course, part of that is because I am Israeli.

Yiddish was basically illegal to speak until recently for various political reasons. (Although a fair number of Haredim still speak it; it is dying, however.)


41 posted on 12/23/2015 7:12:52 AM PST by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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