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Re: lyrics to "Shnirele Perele Gilderne Fon"

At 02:37 PM 12/26/03, Sylvia Schildt wrote:
>But I must point out that it contains grammatical errors...

Ginzburg-Marek transcribed song versions from the living language before it 
was ossified into a "grammatically correct" standard.  That language spoken 
over a huge geographical spread -- as in the case of the language of 
today's native Yiddish speakers in religious neighborhoods all over the 
world -- rarely conforms to a single "standard".  This is particularly true 
in the area of noun genders.


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Cantor Sam Weiss === Jewish Community Center of Paramus, NJ


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