On 22 Nov 2005 08:47:05 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shmuel Metz , Seymour J.) wrote:
>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. According to that article, there was some purposeful obfuscation, that was used when living in a society where being clear about what they were thinking could get them into big trouble. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
