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Via sartorias: a language survey about Hebrew and Yiddish terms trickling into everyday language.

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Hebrew and Yiddish terms trickling into everyday language

[mustangsally78.livejournal.com]

Which is one of the things I hate about living where I do, I tell my students 'suck it up, be a mensch' and they just goggle at me. What do they know from nothing!

[mscongeniality.livejournal.com]

I suspect I'd skew the results. :)

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I doubt it, as they ask questions about your Jewishness. :)

[mscongeniality.livejournal.com]

Heh. They also ask if you've ever lived in the metropolitan NY area.

I got a whole passel of extra questions about my level of observance, activity within the community and such.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

Are those extras? I got them too.

[mscongeniality.livejournal.com]

It stated on one of the forms towards the end that they were asking additional questions of Jewish respondents. I think they're including people who identify as culturally Jewish or who had Judaism in their family background as well as people who self-identify as Jews currently.

The questions on how I use 'Temple', 'Synagogue', and 'Shul', and my understanding of Aramaic certainly came after the 'Are you Jewish' and 'Did you ever live in NY' questions.

[wintersweet.livejournal.com]

Fun! Thanks.

[viridian5.livejournal.com]

When I went to college in Pittsburgh my English teacher often used me as a case subject for my Yiddish, New York words, and different accent. How can they not know what "schlep" means?

[darksumomo.livejournal.com]

I should have told them that I met my ex-wife at a briss (neither one of us is Jewish; she's a Baptist and I'm a lapsed Catholic).

They're going to have fun with my results. I grew up in a neighborhood where, on Yom Kippur, Rosh Hoshanah, and Passover, I was only one of a handful of kids in public school. Everyone else was in temple!