Re: [Cz-L] German language

Thanks, I learned something about "curva"..
"Man wird so alt wie eine Kuh und lernt immer was dazu.".
"You got so old as a cow and learn something in addition"
Hedwig
----- Original Message -----
From: "Anny Matar" <annymatar_at_gmail.com>
To: "HARDY BREIER" <HARDY3_at_bezeqint.net>
Cc: "Miriam Taylor" <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu>; "CZERNOWITZ-L"
<Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Sunday, May 29, 2011 10:44 AM
Subject: Re: [Cz-L] German language

> Although Jossy calls us revered ladies he mentions "no man" in this
> discussion. Hardy I think you should protest loud and clear.
> Hedwig, thanks for calling me "tzutzik" makes me feel great!!! I know that
> all Tzutziks are 70 now but at my age??? Thanks.
> I learned, read (past and present), write German. In the Meisler school we
> learned it, at home we spoke and read plays, the elders reading the
> soliloquies but I always had a part saying Ya oder Nein mein Herr. Always
> very important parts!! was only 12 when my fam. left,but went on reading
> German.
> Even during the first Russian occupation I went to Moldawska scoala and
> there we had a German literature teacher who during the summer German
> occupation still taught me privately before the ghetto. Anyway I know
> German.
> As for Mauscheln - this according to my German husband - is a most
> derogatory expression it comes from Moische; the Jews speaking a mixture
> so
> they can't be understood -sly; cheat; thieves speak that language - our
> German was special because of it's intonation and THE grammar ?!.
> anny
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