ON LANGUAGE; Pit of Ignorance

From: Forward | Date: December 30, 2005| Author: Philologos | Copyright information


Forward

12-30-2005

Allan Levine from Manhattan writes:

"Whenever I meet someone who is, or claims to be, fluent in Yiddish, I give
him or her a test. I ask, 'How do you say "armpit" in Yiddish?' Over many
years, I have yet to receive a correct answer to this question, even from
people whose first language was Yiddish. Do you have any thoughts on why
speakers don't know the word pakhveh? After all, it does appear in Uriel
Weinreich's Modern E...

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