Reply To: Is Yiddish Holy?

Ubiquitin,
1. The Yiddish linguist Max Weinreich said that a language is a dialect with an army and navy.
2. In Europe it was called Jargon.
3. Rabbanim wrote to each other in Hebrew interspersed with Aramaic. It was a sign of a ben Torah that he also wrote his business correspondence in Hebrew. This was borne out by discoveries in the Cairo Geniza (BTW, so far no Yiddish documents have been found there).