Re: Yiddish on List

[Stuart Friedman <stuart_28...>]

Yes, my parents and grandparents would resort to Yiddish (or in my 
grandparents case sometimes into Russian) when they wanted to talk 
privately.  My brother and I resorted to speaking Hebrew to each other.

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>In a message dated 3/2/98 6:47:16 PM, you wrote:
>
>>Did anyone experience Yiddish as a secret
>>>     language used by adults when they did not want children to
>>>    understand what was being said?  How did you feel about it?
>
>Yes. My grandparents spoke Yiddish when they didn't want us to 
understand what
>they were saying. In petty retaliation we would tell them to stop 
talking
>"baby-talk". They would just laugh. Each of them spoke four languages. 
I'm
>lucky if I can speak this one from one day to the next.
>
>jeff
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