Yiddish Mailing List, Issue #53 March 28, 1992 135 lines =============================== Vortshpil #2 (Daniel Moishe Sherman) How do you say "quadruple bypass"? (Yude-Leyb Proger) Tzu gezunt! (Dovid Braun) EC grant to promote Yiddish (Jewish Chronicle) New subscriber (Yankif-Moshe Block) ------------------------ Digest-Message: 53/1 From: dave@lsuc.on.ca (David Sherman) Subject: Vortshpil #2 Date: Mon Nov 4 08:25:31 EST 1991 What do you say, sarcastically, when someone pushes you into the swimming pool? "A dunk." ------------------------ Digest-Message: 53/2 Date: Mon, 27 Jan 92 11:43 EST From: Yude-Leyb Proger {Leonard Prager} Subject: excerpt from Mendele [I've excerpted just this quip from a much longer message from one of MENDELE's more erudite contributors. -DS] How, incidentally, do you say _quadruple bypass_ in Yiddish? My suggestion: "Nit af undz gedakht." ------------------------ Digest-Message: 53/3 Subject: sneezing etc. From: David Braun Date: Sun, 01 Mar 92 14:29:02 EST shulem-alaykhem mishpukhe sherman! ikh hob gelaynt in mail.yiddish veygn di brukhes ven me nist: tsi gezint, tsim leybn in azoy vaater. ikh hob a mul ungeshribn veygn deym a gantsn folkloristishn artikl. kh'farshtay nish' vi m'hot dus gedrikt. iz dus of a kompyuter-nets fin folkloristn? oyb yo, kent ir mir geybn dem adres fin der nets? kh'volt gevolt zaan abonirt. [Dos iz soc.culture.jewish, a newsgroup oif Usenet. - DS] ir ouslayg in ire fartaatshn fin di brukhes zenen shoyderlekh! (kveln = to your life having the joyful serenity of a babbling brook [!!]) in maan mishpukhe zug'mir: tsu gezunt tsum lebn tsu lange yorn tsu vaksn tsu kveln tsu der khupe tsu shteln kh'hob geflegt tsi nisn gantse zeks mul keday di bube zol mir kenen ouszugn di gantse vintshing. a mul hob ikh geflegt tsi felshn dem letstn nus, zi zol kenen endikn di vintshing oyb ikh hob nor gedarft nisn finef in nish' zeks mul! vus hert zikh ba aakh? ikh hof, az nor gits! ikh been shtark farhorevet -- ikh bin der lerer deym semester fin yidish ayns in yidish tsvay in PENN, in tsi der zelber tsaat shraab ikh a magister-arbet ('M.A. thesis') in lingvistik. nishtu ka fraye minit. di elektronishe post iz ayne fin maane balibtste farvaalingen [litvish: farvaylungen] itster, azoy vi ikh treyt azoy zeltn arous fin byuro in fin der arbet. agev, kh'hob nekhtn gekikt in stutshkovs _der oytser fin der yidisher shprakh_ in nish' gekent gefinen kan emese nest mit verter finem tip _kh'bet iber ayer kuved_. take modne -- eftsher miz ikh ober vaater zikhn, eftsher inter an ander verternest. ------------------------ Digest-Message: 53/4 From: dave@lsuc.on.ca (David Sherman) Subject: grant to University College London to promote Yiddish Date: Sat Mar 28 21:53:21 EST 1992 Jewish Chronicle (London, England), January 24, 1992: EC gelt gives Yiddish yichus Yiddish, once scorned by educated Jews as a lowly dialect, has been recognised as an international language by the European Community. The European Commission -- the EC's executive arm -- has awarded the Hebrew and Jewish studies department of University College London an #8,000 grant [about US$15,000 -- DS] to promote the study of Yiddish. Still reeling with surprise, departmental head, Professor Mark Geller, said: "It's a great coup, we can hardly believe it. We put in an application on the grounds that Yiddish is a pan-European lanaguge, but we hardly expected to be successful. This must be the long-shot-of-the-year award." UCL, which runs courses in Yiddish for undergraduates, will give the language a further boost later this year by launching a month-long summer programme for the public in August. [My only comment, aside from pleasure at hearing of the grant (which isn't all that much money, after all), is surprise at Professor Geller's astonishment. Yiddish might indeed qualify as the only language spoken until recently by a large body of native speakers in almost every EC country. Why shouldn't the EC help promote its study? - DS] ------------------------ Digest-Message: 53/5 Date: Mon, 16 Mar 92 17:32 EST From: Jeffrey Block <22648MGR@MSU.EDU> Ikh farchte a bissle yiddish. Ikh velt fershtayin asoch. Ikh velt geskhictin sanir a briv oif yidish de 'Mail.Yiddish'. Dir emes gezugt, "...areinshteln ofin post-rshime.". Ikh no farchte es. Dunka Shane. Yankif Moshe Jeffrey M. Block ------------------------ SOF FUN NUMER 53 ------------------------ David (Daniel Moishe) Sherman, Toronto Moderator, mail.yiddish dave@lsuc.on.ca (416) 889-7658