The world of dogs . . .

[sartorias]

Training a Schutzhund, and does anyone speak Yiddish?

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[rose_lemberg]

I can help with the Yiddish! Let me know what you need. Typing is slow now (arm pain) so response might not be immediate.

[sartorias]

Huzzah! Go over to the link, if you will, and let them know. Deborahjross also has a live journal.

[spartezda]

Ooh, how interesting! I've a pair of students, one with a pure GSD, one with a GS/Corgi cross (don't ask me how that one happened...), and it's great to see how joyfully the dogs take to learning.

[sartorias]

That second dog has got to be fun!

[cmcmck]

Sadly no, but the Latvian part of my family would have done.

[ethelmay]

In my father's Milwaukee childhood, everyone told their dogs (or used to) "Platz!" (meaning "Siddown!") and "Raus!" (meaning "Get out of there!"). I'd be interested to know if the Yiddish is more or less the same.

[sartorias]

Those are definitely German. I wonder if they are also Yiddish? So much Yiddish sounds German to me.

[ethelmay]

Lots of Yiddish words are related to medieval German (there are of course different dialects with differing amounts of German influence). Definitely not safe to make any assumptions about which terms mean the same thing, though (consider the difference between "putz" and "putzing around" -- the latter being an expression my grandmother had no hesitation in using). In German "putzen" is to clean or polish: it's what you do to your teeth.

Now that I think about it, I can picture people scratching their heads and saying, "Why did you just tell your dog to explode?" (plotz)

[sartorias]

Yes! (lol)