Yes, and there are no curses as juicy and vile as the Yiddish ones. The point is that it is the speaker who makes his tongue holy or not. When a Ben Torah converses in English, Spanish, French, and “even” in Ivrit, his language is clean, and interlaced with Loshon Hakodesh and pseukim, midrashim, divrei Chazal, and lacks any similarity to the one spoken by the gentiles. At the same time, Yiddish, with all its idiom, when used by the irreligious, can reek with nevolo and loshon horah, and, worse yet, using the very same talmudic expressions.
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