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To: bentway who wrote (868632)	6/27/2015 8:43:47 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578695

It was like a secret language, because only they could understand what they were saying True story. After my Dad got back from Korea, he used the GI Bill to go to watchmaking school. His first job out of school was in a jewelry store. True to the stereotype, the owner was Jewish. His friends would come over and they would hang around in back, talking. In Yiddish, because what goyim understands Yiddish? Now my Dad was born into a German-Czech community in the Bryan/College Station area. German language newspaper and all. My grandmother didn't learn English until she was an adult. Do you know that Yiddish is derived from German? One day he couldn't take it any more and answered when one of them asked a question. Sudden silence. They stopped hanging around in the back.

To: bentway who wrote (868632)	6/27/2015 10:10:12 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 1578695

Where it really came thru for me was when I needed to pass the foreign language requirement in grad school. I knew Spanish, but they said it didn't count, cuz all the physiology papers were written in English, French, Russian, German, and maybe Japanese. I figured German was related to Yiddish, so I bought a learn German book, memorized 10 or 20 words a day for a few months, scored high enuf on one of those standardized tests I got so good at taking to fulfill the requirement, and then started forgetting everything as fast as I could.

To: bentway who wrote (868632)	6/28/2015 6:03:24 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1578695

There was a guy in my tennis club in S. CA that was a Hollywood guy associated with some pretty big movies behind the scenes, rounding up investors. One day he had two friends down from LA, and they were all speaking Yiddish! It was like a secret language, because only they could understand what they were saying - not very musical though. Occasionally you'd hear an English word, I guess because there was no Yiddish word. Yiddish is actually a bastardization of German as CJ pointed out. Its like Cajun French...........just as the French are insulted by Canjun French; the Germans are insulted by Yiddish.