Mendele: Yiddish literature and language ______________________________________________________ Contents of Vol. 2 no. 165 March 21, 1993 1) Keyboard layout (Mark H. David) 2) The gantse megillah (Moshe Waldoks) 3) English in Oystralye (David Sherman) 4) Videramol fir kashes (Eli Katz) 1)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat Mar 20 00:19:11 1993 From: mhd@WORLD.STD.COM Subject: keyboard layout Reyzl asked: "... [H]as anyone found the best solution to properly labeling the keyboard?" I don't like changing physical keycaps, or pasting things on. I also want to eventually memorize the keyboard layout. What works best for me -- I have a Mac -- is to go to Key Caps and take a screen snapshot of the keycaps with your Yiddish (Hebrew) font, then print that, then cut out the minimum rectangle around that, and paste it up as close as possible to your CRT. Then, whenever you're stuck, you can just move your eyes slightly and see where your fingers have to move. This assumes you can touch type. You could most likely substitute for a Keycaps snapshot in some way if you have to -- draw it if you have the patience. The picture just has to be good enough a picture of your keyboard that your fingers can figure out where they have to go to find the letters you're seeing with your eyes. Sometimes there's a picture of your keyboard in the manual, so you could maybe use that. Hope this helps. Mark H. David (mhd@gensym.com) 2)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri Mar 19 12:08:38 1993 From: waldoks@binah.cc.brandeis.edu Subject: last call for purim torah for the gantse megillah sholem aleychem yidn. ikh halt bay endikn zamln far a nayer bukh vos heyst "the gantse megillah". ikh bin eyner fun di redakters fun "the big book of jewish humor." i'd like to receive all kinds of jokes, parodies of not only the purim story, but of other biblical and rabbinic themes. yes i know about itzik manger's megilleh lider. a sheynem dank tsu aleman vos vet zayn azoy gut vi tsu arayn shikn a vitz. fun a nayer mendele yoresh. moshe waldoks [waldoks@binah.cc.brandeis.edu ] 3)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri Mar 19 12:51:42 1993 From: dave@CAI.LSUC.ON.CA Subject: English in Oystralye [Elyet Gertl writes:] > Vehasheynes muz ikh shteln ot di kashe Payrets Mettsn: az > ir shraybt -azayns- gramt es mit englishn "LINE" un "SIGN" > tsu mit "LANE" un "SANE?" Oyb men voynt in Oystralye zene zey di zelbe! Nisht nor bay yidish hot men dem problem. Ober an oystralyer vos zogt "layn" vet say vi say shraybn LANE. Daniel Moishe Sherman 4)---------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri Mar 19 14:09:16 1993 From: katz@SONOMA.EDU Subject: videramol fir kashes Der litvisher nusekh fun di fir kashes (al pi mayn tate fun mikhalishek, nit vayt fun vilne) iz geven makaronish un hot zikh ongehoybn an erekh azoy, ober mit a nign: tate ikh vel dir fregn di fir kashes: ma, farvos, nishtano, iz farendert gevorn, halaylo haze, di dozike nakht fun peysekh, mikol haleyloys, fun ale nekht fun a gants yor? shebkhol haleyloys, in ale nekht fun a gants yor, anu oykhlin, esn mir, khomets u matso, khomets tsi matse. halaylo haze, di dozike nakht fun peysekh, kuloy matso, bloyz matse. Dos iberike, zum badoyern, gedenk ikh shoyn nit, vayl mir, vi printsipyele apikorsim, hobn in der heym keyn sedorim nit gepravet, un nor eymol in lebn (tsu tsen yor) iz mir oysgekumen fregn di kashes. Demolt hot zey der tate mit mir ayngekhazert, vayl afile az me gleybt nit, muz men dos rikhtik makhn! Ober nor di ersht kashe iz mir geblibn in zikorn. Ikh meyn az azelkhe makaronishe sedorim zenen geven nit zeltn oykh in andere kantn. Malke Tuzman, di poetese (fun volin), fleg dertseyln az ven zi iz geven a meydele fun nayn yor, hot ir tate fartaytsht dem 'evodim hayinu' mit 'shklafn zenen mir geven bay pare in mitsraim', un zi hot im ibergesholgn un gezogt "neyn, tate, s'iz nit rikhtik; es darf zayn 'far- shklaft zenen mir geven . .'" Un fun demolt on, hot er azoy getaytsht. Eli Katz ______________________________________________________ End of Mendele Vol 2.165