I deviate here forgive me, but the original thread of Ames has prompted me to go off on a tangent.
I have listened to many people who think they speak yiddish and in fact will claim they speak yiddish but in fact very few people speak yiddish correctly and fluently nowadays.
Many words have been americanised or invented, accents abused and in fact when I listen to many people who think they speak yiddish I find it hard to comprehend exactly what they are saying as their yiddish is gramatically and vocabulary incorrect.
Yiddish is a rich beautiful language with many sayings that simply do not translate well and are in danger of being lost altogether due to new fangled variation being spoken today.
I speak fluent yiddish, the correct and original way with all the vocabulary much of which is not understood today – shame really as yiddish is an international Jewish language that is dying when it shouldn’t
End of rant !!