"I forget if oygn is spelled with an ayin or not."
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other categories found with "yiddish": language (5), multilingualisms (4), germanics (2), family (2), religion (2)
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[edit] added: 2 June 2008
(15:32:55) Aladnsane: Is it spelled with an H in yiddish? I always just guess with German orthography. Hell, it's written in Hebrew half the time *shrug*
(15:33:06) [me]: it's not written in hebrew
(15:33:09) [me]: just hebrew script
(15:33:13) Aladnsane: point
(15:33:33) Aladnsane: At least I didn't say it was written in Jewish :P I get asked if I speak Jewish way more often than is cool.
[edit] added: 6 November 2007
"If they wanted it to be pronounced [latkəz], they should've spelled it ‘lutkers’."
[edit] added: 6 February 2006
03:47:04 [Tristan]: i thought yiddish was ei > ai, ii > ei
03:47:16 [me]: that's possible. what's your source?
03:47:28 [Tristan]: my possibly faulty brain
03:47:37 [me]: well, where'd you get it before that
03:47:41 [me]: cause that sounds basically right
03:47:59 [Tristan]: my possibly faulty brain is getting a DNS resolution failure on that.
[edit] added: 11 March 2005
"Dem totns gelt. I'd like to get my hands on dem totns gelt, yo?"
[edit] added: 10 February 2005
"My father likes ketchup on knishes. My father also likes ketchup on latkes. But he's a goy."
[edit] added: 8 February 2005
"Er hot andere fish to fry."
[edit] added: unknown
"Zuxt oys in a verterbux - I'm not responsible for the meaning of German words."