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No idea what you mean? The Yiddish seems normal, the Hebrew on the other end is... Judeo-German (Hebrew-lettered German).
by WelcomeShorty 4y ago
No idea what you mean?
The Yiddish seems normal, the Hebrew on the other end is... Judeo-German (Hebrew-lettered German).
- ihm 4y agoI meant regarding the title “Nayes folshtendiges kokhbukh fir die yidishe kikhe: Ayn unentberlikhes handbukh fir yidishe froyen und tokhter nebst forshrift fon flaysh kosher makhen und khale nemen, iberhoypt iber raynlikhkayt und kashrut”. I started reading it assuming it was some non-standard transliteration of Yiddish, since it kind of looks like YIVO transliteration. And it wasn’t uncommon in those days to write Yiddish in a way that mimicked German orthography. But I couldn’t understand some of the words, which makes sense because it’s German and not Yiddish!
- yorwba 4y agoIt's not quite German either. E.g. פֿרויען / froyen ("women") represents the Yiddish pronunciation, which would be rendered "Fräuen" in German orthography, while the Standard German cognate is "Frauen". So it seems to me like no attempt was made to represent the German pronunciation of the word and the familiar Yiddish spelling was retained instead. (Other features, like not distinguishing between German "i" and "ü" could perhaps be explained by Austro-Bavarian German also not distinguishing these.) By the way, as a German speaker who can kind of read Yiddish except for Hebrew and Aramaic loanwords (i.e. kosher, khale and kashrut, though כשר was guessable from context), I'm curious which of the German words you couldn't understand.
- ihm 4y agoI understood the gist from context, but unentberlikhes, nebst, and forshrift were not understandable to me. The Yiddish words are very different. I’m not a native speaker, I think a native speaker probably would have understood forshrift for example. The other two I doubt.