Yiddish Mailing List, Issue #20 January 25, 1990 76 lines =============================== Fun with the kids 2 (David Sherman) An entfer Melekhn (Noyekh Miller) ------------------------ Digest-Message: 20/1 From: dave@lsuc.on.ca (David Sherman) Subject: fun with the kids (2) Date: Thu Jan 25 20:31:15 EST 1990 (See Digest-Message 10/6 for the first message in this thread...) A few times recently one of my daughters (Ariela's almost 6, Shoshana's almost 4) has come into the kitchen and seen me busily making something on the kitchen counter. They then ask, "Vus machts du, Daddy?", to which I gaily reply, "Borukh Hashem!". They're learning to reword the question... ------------------------ Digest-Message: 20/2 Date: Thu, 25 Jan 90 16:26:00 EST From: NMILLER@TRINCC.BITNET (Noyekh Miller) Subject: An entfer Melekhn Ikh shrayb vaygn Melek's briv. Ershstens vil ikh gebn tsu farshteyn vos ikh hob gemaynt mit "ayntsiger shprakh". Gemaynt hob ikh nisht derbay az fun alle velt-shprakhen zol gornisht blaybn, nur Idish. Khos v'khalile! Ikh hob nur gemaynt as 'siz a vunder az a shprakh vos iz shir-nisht vernikhtet gevorn vet efsher nokhamol vaksn. Mer hob ikh nisht gevolt zogn. Vos shaykh di glosar. A sakh fun di verter, vi l'moshl tsugraytn (format), tsugepast (compatible), Melekh's klavish (keyboard), ukdoyme, gefelen mir vayl zay zenen poshet un klor. A vort vi margaredl (daisy-wheel), iz nishkoshe, nur epes tsu klug. Efsher in California redt men azoy. Ober es vayst zikh mir oys as azelkhe verter vi datn-bazeh (database), vortierer (word-processor), un toykhn-optail (directory) hobn--ir zolt mir entshuldign--mayn bubbe's tam. Vos far a Idish iz dos? Vos far a shprakh iz dos? Vortierer? Rakhmone- litzlen! Vilt ir mayne kandidatn, mayne forlegn, ot zenen zay. word processor redakter database reshime spreadsheet khezhbon directory khaylik, optayl floppy disk platte hard disk groysplatte personal computer zelbstshtendiker, frayshtendiker, mikro Shlieslikh: 1. Vos kertser, vos besser. 2. An ibergetaytsht vort darf shpringen fun _bagrif_, funm _aytzem-bagrif_, un nisht fun a mekhanishe iberzetsung. 3. Der ikr fun idish iz as 'siz haymish, ironish, sharf. Idish iz nisht a shprakh far azoyns velkher di Frantsoyzer rufn "un homme papier". Dem Englishn shprakh hobn shoyn diyenike paskudnyakes gut bagrubn. Men muz sikh hitn fun zay. Noyekh ------------------------ END OF ISSUE #20 ------------------------ David (Daniel Moishe) Sherman, Toronto Moderator, mail.yiddish { uunet!attcan {AT&T Sites}!att pyramid!utai utzoo } !lsuc!dave dave@lsuc.on.ca attcan!lsuc!dave@uunet.uu.net