From Ti@fa-kuan.muc.de Sun Jul 01 03:54:27 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: Ti@fa-kuan.muc.de X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 1 Jul 2001 10:54:27 -0000 Received: (qmail 16991 invoked from network); 1 Jul 2001 10:54:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l9.egroups.com with QMQP; 1 Jul 2001 10:54:26 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ef.egroups.com) (10.1.2.111) by mta1 with SMTP; 1 Jul 2001 10:54:26 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: Ti@fa-kuan.muc.de Received: from [10.1.10.99] by ef.egroups.com with NNFMP; 01 Jul 2001 10:54:26 -0000 Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2001 10:54:24 -0000 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: Alis in Yiddishland Message-ID: <9hmvh0+9tua@eGroups.com> In-Reply-To: User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Length: 1006 X-Mailer: eGroups Message Poster X-Originating-IP: 62.104.218.70 From: "A.W.T." --- In lojban@y..., John Cowan wrote: > A.W.T. scripsit: > > > Luy Karol (Louis Carol) > > Of course his name, or rather pseudonym, was "Lewis" /luwIs/. Yes, 'twas my negligence. > > mome-ret hot uysgegrobn. > > Even though it is written vav-yod, it is transliterated "oy" > by the standard (YIVO) system: "oysgegrobn". This sounds better (also, i was mislead by my wife's similar dialect with all those "uy"-diphtongs). > > Nem mikh arum, meyn beymish kind. > > "Kint". I also thought it should be rather "kint", but it's written exactly like this: "Nem mikh arum, mayn beymish kind." > > A yum-tubb gruys! Khalayn, khaluys, > > Yom-tov, because it's of Hebrew origin, or at least the > two parts are. Where can I get the YIVO-rules? (BTW, In earlier days, I learned, Yiddish writing wasn't vocalized so all the different dialects from the Baltics down to the crimea - mainly just varying in vowels and diphtongs - could easily be read from the same text.) ki'e .aulun.