Anybody love Yiddish ???

[Zebra]

schnoz, not schnooz

it reminds me of the yGerman Schnauze

 

[Zebra]

From 1900 until the 1930s most Non Jewish Germans were familiar & comfortable conversing inYiddish with Yiddish speakers ( even Berliners )

i think they understood it .... but did not speak it fluently

 

[Zebra]

zal deyn kaf vaxn in der erd vi a tsibele

i understand all .... except kaf ...


german: es soll dein kaf? wachsen in der Erde wie eine kleine Zwiebel

 

[Failzero]

A bissle

 

[Failzero]

I picked the brains of the Altacochers at temple for words & praises until one of the gave me a tiny Dictionary ( put out by a bagel shop in New York )

 

[Zebra]

A bissle

more or less the same as in my own German dialect!

e bissele ...

 

[Zebra]

schnoz, not schnooz

In German …. Schnauze

 

[Zebra]

Hocht nir Mischt Konn chynik

I dont know that!

 

[Zebra]

Heng dikh oyf a tsikershtrikl vestu hobn a zisn toyt

i understand …. Black humour!