[Cz-L] Re: czernowitz-l digest: May 26, 2011

Regarding Cz German versus other German dialects, I always assumed that we =
spoke "Hoch Deutsch" and all other versions were aberrations.=A0
There is a woman from Berlin in my building in Toronto and her German to me=
 sounds like Cockney to Oxford in English or Brooklyn to Mid Atlantic Ameri=
can. =A0
In 1952 in Toronto, =A0having spoken next to no German =A0for ten years, an=
 Austrian actor, Joseph Furst, asked me if I could do a Viennese accent for=
 a radio show. =A0As all hungry actors would respond, I said, "Of course," =
because I needed the talent fees. Four of the cast of five were mature acto=
rs from Vienna and I just emulated their dialect which I didn't find much d=
ifferent from my own and I got through the show without any problems. =A0
But all this conversation about qualifications for Cz ratings got me thinki=
ng about how and what we spoke at home and I'm confused now. =A0I can't rec=
all when I spoke German or Romanian. =A0I know in Scoala Elite all lessons =
were in Romanian but we got German and French lessons, too. =A0In perhaps M=
arch of '39, now in my first year of Lyceum, I was thrown out of school for=
 two weeks for slugging another boy. =A0(He slapped me first) =A0My punishm=
ent may not have been for the violence but for the fact that as my fist fle=
w at the other boy, it connected with the hand of a second boy who was hold=
ing a jam sandwich that hit the newly painted wall and stuck to it, making =
a mess.=A0
At home we had already set the spring date for our emigration so dad, said,=
 "You don't need to go back to that Fascist school" and he got me a tutor, =
a Mr. Hersonski, who provided better education in all subjects than I would=
 have had at the Lyceum. =A0But what bothers me now is, I can't at all reca=
ll if Hersonski taught me in German or Romanian.=A0
=A0I was on a plane once and a Spanish lady sat down next to me. =A0She had=
 a boy of about eight with her and when the kid spoke to her, he would slid=
e from English to Spanish and back in the same sentence without being aware=
 of it. =A0Maybe we did something like that in Czernowitz. =A0Do any of you=
 have better memories about this? =A0Did we speak any Romanian at home? =A0=
For instance, one of my best friends was a Romanian boy named Aurel. =A0Did=
 he speak German? =A0I can't recall. =A0Did we always converse in Romanian?=
 =A0=A0All my memories today are in English and it's quite confusing.=A0And=
y

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Subject: czernowitz-l digest: May 26, 2011
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Date: Thursday, May 26, 2011, 10:01 PM

CZERNOWITZ-L Digest for Thursday, May 26, 2011.

1. Re: [Cz-L] Czernowitzers in categories.
2. Re: [Cz-L] Dorin Fraenkel of Radautz
3. Re: [Cz-L] Czernowitzers in categories.
4. [Cz-L] Michurin street.
5. [Cz-L] Richtige Czernowitzer .
6. Re: [Cz-L] Czernowitzers in categories.
7. Re: [Cz-L] Czernowitzers in categories.
8. Re: [Cz-L] Czernowitzers in categories.
9. Re: [Cz-L] Richtige Czernowitzer .
10. AW: [Cz-L] Czernowitzers in categories.
11. Re: [Cz-L] Richtige Czernowitzer .
12. [Cz-L] Re: czernowitz-l digest: May 25, 2011
13. Re: [Cz-L] Czernowitzers in categories.
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