In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 11/21/2005 at 02:09 PM, Howard Brazee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>This weekend's episode of Michael Feldman's Whad'Ya Know? had an >interview with someone who wrote a book about the origins of Yiddish. >I never would have guessed (I'm a Gentile) that it started off with >Frenchmen moving to Germany, adding on some Hebrew for >obfuscation. No obfuscation. The speakers of early Yiddish used Hebrew[1] words that they were familiar with, just as you use French, Italian and Spanish words that you are familiar with. >But if you're into obfuscation, I eschew obfuscation, except for purposes of humor. >try http://thc.org/root/phun/unmaintain.html >How To Write Unmaintainable Code Thanks but no thanks. >Ensure a job for life ;-) There has to be a less destructive way. I've seen too much unmaintainable to to want to afflict someone else with more of it. [1] And a bit later, from other languages, eventually including English. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
