Re:Kafka: The Rescue Will Begin in Its Own Time
by 082349872349872 on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @05:00AM
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Like hindi and urdu, the biggest difference between yiddish and other german dialects is the script[1]. I have "Velo" and "Poulet", so my loan words are not as exotic as the hebrew/aramaic ("tukhes") and eastern european ("ну") influences on yiddish, but all the dialects[2] have loan words ("Homeoffice") and most have their own unique terms ("Rundumeli").
[1] it was yiddish that got me into russian, because it's easier to find more than just Andrews Sisters on YouTube in cyrillic:
eg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWeqbs9OFX0
https://yi.wikipedia.org/wiki/הויפט_זייט is interesting if you can read hebrew script.
https://als.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Houptsyte_(Schwyzer... will give you some idea why I recommended starting with the NZZ, which almost writes in standardised german.
[1] it was yiddish that got me into russian, because it's easier to find more than just Andrews Sisters on YouTube in cyrillic: eg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWeqbs9OFX0
also recommended, for any germanophone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XH1fERC_504 (or anglophones who don't mind subtitles)
[2] in tourist hiking areas, a popular past-time is to guess where people are from by how they greet on the trail.