Yeshivisha Shprach

real-brisker, lkwdfellow- All you’re doing is posting in Yiddish. Whats the “shtick”?

Thanks for a great thread, RealBrisker. Over Shabbos, we noticed our son used the word “punkt” and could not recall him using it in the past (which he no doubt has, we just didn’t notice it)

But the real shocker, was my mother, who is as far from yeshivish as you can get. She used the word “grada”, and the table went silent. (This from a BY of Willamsburg 1950’s girl, poodle skirt, saddle shoes, letter on the sweater, the whole bit)

Go figure.

Blinky –

You’re point about the “yeshivish shprach” dialouge that Lakewood and Brisk had running was more yiddish than I would expect from 2 “yeshivish” people. So much so, that I was beginng to suspect BP / Willy / Monroe in the background.

That was untill I spotted some dead-giveaways that yiddish is not the mama-lushen (small things, but givaways, none-the-less).

But YOU Blinky, have me totally confused. You claim not to be Chassidish, yet used the word “l’maaseh” instead of the more yeshivish “l’maiseh”.

So.. what gives?

Brisker – I figured you’re not from any of the above. Although your yiddish is very good (very, very good), its still yeshivish yiddish.

I not so surprised, as most “brisk” talmidim have a healthy dose of Hungarian in them, so your zeidi (or most likely, your zaideh) has a bigger influence on you than you realize.

As far as the chassidish-part that tripped you up, it was the word “Jam”.

Nuances, nuances.

real-brisker:

BTW, did you actually go to Brisk?

“Are you clarified now”

Not really, but thats ok. Still, your choice to spell / pronounce a word with the chassidsh accent must be a result of something. Maybe a sign of things to come….?

S’is emmes that most yeshivisha shprach shtams from Yiddish, uber it’s andersh if most of the words are Yiddish with a bissel sprinkling of English or punkt farkert. The way you two were writing, the language was just plain Yiddish with English letters. S’iz nisht kein pele that eimetzer who knows a shtik’l Yeshivish but not Yiddish couldn’t farshtei. That’s punkt how American Yidden talk Yiddish, efsher with a bissel less Aramish. You should hear Israelis speak Yiddish. You wouldn’t understand their Eretzyisroeldigge Yiddish just like they wouldn’t understand your Amerikanisher Yiddish. Every third word is Hebrew – punkt azoi vi unzere shprach, nor bei unz mit English.

Gadolhatorah, it’s pretty obvious from the post-wanting to create hock and boredom