[Cz-L] language

My grandmother, born in 1892, learned both German and Polish. It was a necessity. She came to America in 1918 and learned English. Years later, when she corresponded with her sister-in-law who was now in Shanghai, the letters were written in Yiddish, German and Polish. If she couldn't think of how to say something in one language, she switched to another one. That generation had to be multilingual. However, she preferred German to Polish so she mostly wrote in Yiddish and German.

Shelley

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On Wed, 4/2/14, Miriam Taylor <mirtaylo_at_indiana.edu> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [Cz-L] Hotel Bristol
 To: "cornel fleming" <cornel.fleming_at_virgin.net>
 Cc: "'HARDY BREIER'" <HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET>, "'Paul Heger'" <pheger_at_gmail.com>, "'Gary Davis'" <ashglen_at_rogers.com>, "'Shelley.Mitchell_at_att.net'" <shelley.mitchell_at_att.net>, "'David Glynn'" <glynn_at_spontini.co.uk>, "'CZERNOWITZ-L'" <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>, "'Benjamin Grilj'" <b.grilj_at_perspectiveast.com>
 Date: Wednesday, April 2, 2014, 11:17 AM
 
 I mostly agree with Cornel.
 The people who had been born between 1900 and 1918
 all learned German in school. They also read German novels,
 newspapers
 and magazines. That is why most of them spoke grammatically
 correct German
 even though their pronunciation was heavily Yiddish.
 I happen to have letters written by assorted relatives
 between the years
 1924 - 1940, all of them are written in correct German.
 
 Mimi

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