> What also feels construed is the part about the diminutives I don't think they meant to say -el/-ele were slavic influence. They just mentioned them and then

> What also feels construed is the part about the diminutives I don't think they meant to say -el/-ele were slavic influence. They just mentioned them and then went on to obviously slavic ones like -chki,-chik,-yu and -nyu. > multiple negation is still used in south west Germany I don't think it works the same way though? In south German dialects it puts "no" at the end: "Das macht KEINEN Spaß NICHT". In Polish (and in Yiddish AFAIU) it puts "no" before the verb: "To NIE sprawia ŻADNEJ frajdy" is a little more natural but "To ŻADNEJ frajdy NIE sprawia" is perfectly fine as well. I don't know Yiddish well enough to translate that but I think it would be closer to the Polish sentence in word order.