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Link with more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_language_is_a_dialect_with_an_army_and_navy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_language_is_a_dialect_with_an...
by joshrotenberg 14y ago
Link with more info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_language_is_a_dialect_with_an_army_and_navy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_language_is_a_dialect_with_an...
a shprakh iz a dialekt mit an armey un flot
Yiddish is fascinating. (And entertaining when spoken by Mel Brooks as an Ind ... er, Native American).
- jdmichal 14y agoI could pretty readily read (Latin-transliterated) Yiddish with just a couple years of German language classes. > "Eine Sprache ist ein Dialekt mit einer Armee und einer Flotte"
- joshrotenberg 14y agoYou might enjoy this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qQSAEMq5ko http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qQSAEMq5ko
- jdmichal 14y agoI did! Thank you very much for linking me to it.
- SilasX 14y agoI read an intro to Yiddish when I was in the same position as you, and my immediate reaction was, "Wait, this is just German with some rough edges!"