Yiddish is a beautiful language. I feel connected to my ancestors when I speak the language. It’s a pity that the younger Yiddish-speaking females feel it’s uncool to speak Yiddish in public.
I wish I could understand, speak and write loshen kodesh as fluently as I know Yiddish and English. I would feel connected to my even more ancient ancestors and history. I blame the schools for teaching so many things that are not important instead of teaching us to understand, to write and to speak Loshen Hakodesh fluently.
Yiddish doesn’t butcher loshen kodesh. Yiddish is an evolving language like every single spoken language is. You would not understand the English spoken 1,500 years ago. Yiddish evolved less than many other languages. If I strain myself, I can understand Old High German, the original source of the Yiddish language, even though over the years the pronuciation and dialects evolved. The Hebrew words in the Yiddish language also evolved a bit; it is not butchered.