Re: [Cz-L] German language

True is true, German was our mother language.
  It was the language we used at home .
  There was no language we knew any better.
    But it was bad enough.
     We found out much later.
      We read German books , but we didnt talk like this.
      If we talked as the books we read the other boys would
    call us nasty names !
      I grew up in a town 20 years after Cz became Rumania .
       Cut off from Vienna .
        At school we sang :" Trei culori cunosc pe lume "( rumanian
jingoistic)

        And yet German was our pride , our show off !
      Yes Czernowitzerish, a never declared dialect of the German family of
        languages.( see our posts).
          With a high percentage of Yiddish and Hebrew words included.
        The German dialects are spoken by the Germans from Prussia
         to Switzerland.
            The Jewish people are not a germanic tribe.
          The Germans had a word for the way the our speech sounded
        to them : Mauscheln.
            Look it up.
     Hardy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Miriam Taylor" <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>
To: "CZERNOWITZ-L" <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Saturday, May 28, 2011 2:13 PM
Subject: [Cz-L] German language

> Recently the subject of knowing German and German literature,
> came up in our discussions. Since all of us, "real Czernowitzers",
> were born after Czernowitz became Cernauti, none of us
> learned German in school.
>
> Yet most of us not only speak and understand German,
> we also are familiar with German literature and poetry.
> It must have been the generation of our parents, which was
> so steeped in German literature and poetry, that they
> transmitted it to us.
> Except for a few hours of being taught to read, I never
> was taught German, but most of the books I read till age 12,
> were German books and in the conversations of the adults,
> allusions and references to German poetry, were often repeated.
>
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