Every language has its literary version and its various colloquial versions.
In the 19th and early 20th century, most Yiddish books were published and
printed in Vilna. I believe that this is why Lithuanian Yiddish became the
literary Yiddish.
Hardy, you are right that all languages adopt words from other languages,
but unless there is a consensus about which words to keep and which words to
disallow, one language becomes many different ones.
To decide what the consensus is, they do not have a plebiscite, but
generally allow some authors and academicians to make the decisions.
That is why they held the Yiddish conference in Czernowitz.
Like you, I prefer to speak and hear Czernowitz Yiddish rather than "Litvak"
Yiddish, but no one asked me.
Mimi
On 9/13/10 8:53 AM, "HARDY BREIER" <HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET> wrote:
> Why is Litvak Yiddish pure ?
> Is our Yiddish impure ?
> No language has rules how for its developement.
> When the Soviets recognized the Jews right to autonom schooling
> they faced the problem of the language. They found out that every
> community spoke differently..
> They chose Litvak and we got "Saynen " for "senen "which was very funny.
> Otherwise they must have printed 5 versions of books for a population
> of a few hundred thousand.
> Back to languages:
> All language adopt words from all possible sources
> and has no rules for its development..
> You dont find purity of language in books.
> It is in the mouth of the people who use it.
> In 1906 Jews decided in Czernowitz that Yiddish was a language.
> In 1942 Germans in Wannsee decided that the Jews were no people.
>
> Hardy
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