Heh, since I've been learning Indonesian at UBC lately (which I've been enjoying), my linguistic life is getting ever more confusing ( Read more... )

Lately I've been watching videos on youtube of this great guy, Arkady Gendler, an elderly Yiddish singer from Ukraine.

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Actually, I went out to a Yiddish singalong night a bit more than a week ago ( Read more... )

I just read a book in the UPEI library which looked at the speech patterns of Yiddish/English speakers in a beachfront retirement community somewhere in the US in the late 50s. This part really warmed my heart, although it was just an aside. Speaking about community political and cultural groups:

"There are many groups which are not really ( Read more... )