The Yiddish Kvetch: relating language to culture.(Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods)(Book review)

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Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods by Michael Wex, New York: St. Martin's Press, 2005, xiii + 303, $24.95. Paperback edition, xiii + 303 + 16, New York: Harper Collins, 2006, $13.95.

Languages grow. They are designed--our minds are designed--to add new words and to develop new constructions. Every language expands to meet the needs of those who speak it. An article in the April 18, 2007, issue of The New Yorker called "The Interpreter" explores the nature of the language of people in the Amazon jungle whose needs seem not to include ...

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