Yiddish Mailing List, Issue #22 February 25, 1990 114 lines =============================== Rock Around the Clock (Michael Shimshoni) Mazltov, and a book review (Raphael Finkel) Ortografie un dialekt (Melekh Viswanath) Vider a vortshpil (David Sherman) ------------------------ Digest-Message: 22/1 Date: Fri, 23 Feb 90 02:52:39 EST From: Michael Shimshoni Subject: Re: mail.yiddish issue #21 I received issue #21 loud and clear. How WAS Rock around the clock said in Yiddish? [Ikh veis nisht. Andy, kenstu uns zugen? - DS] ------------------------ Digest-Message: 22/2 From: Raphael Finkel Date: Fri, 23 Feb 90 10:52:53 EST Subject: Tsvei mazltovs Peninan un mir kumen tsvey mazl-tovs. Ershtns, hot zi a nay briderl, Osher, geboyrn dem 24n Kislev. Tsveytns, pravn mir a siyum: adurkhgeleyent dem gantzn bukh 'Inglele Ringele' fun Leon Elben. Yeder nakht flegn mir leyenen a por kapitlekh, biz shoyn geendikt. Dos iz di lengste bukh vos zi hot gehert (leyenen leyent zi nokh nit, ober derkenen derkent zi ale yiddishe oysyes), an erekh 190 zaytn, un mit nor eyn groys bild in yenem kapitl. ["yedem", meinstu? - DS] Di mayse aleyn iz a sheyner. Der held, vos er heyst nor 'Ingele mit a ringele', un farkirtst: 'Ingele Ringele', hot a matone bakumen fun di eltern: a fingerl. Ale nakht in kholem fort er af a vunder-rayze, zukhendik dem meylekh vos af yener zayt taykh. Zayn ringele is a farkishefts, un helft im baykumen di ale kushyos veabayos vos shteyen tsvishn im un zayn tsil. Ober bald heybt er on farshteyn az a meylekh is nisht ale mol a guter. Der meylekh vos er zukht iz grod farkert; zayne arbeter horevn shver un biter, un der meylekh tut nit keyn hant in kalt vaser. Meynt s'ingele er *muz* shoyn tsu der meylekh, nit nor im tsu zen, mit zayn oyshrus un zayn malke, beyn meylekh, un bas malke, nor bifrat im tsu lozn visn as nit azoy firt zikh a meylekh a mentsh. Afn veg bagegnt Ingele mit a sakh parshoynen fun tanakh un midresh. Ven Ingele dertseylt Dovidn Hameylekh az ken zayn as dos zingn tsu dem meylekh af yener zayt taykh vet im makhn milder un mer bamhartsik, lakht Dovid Hameylekh: 'Azoy hob ikh oykh gepruvt mit Shouln. Hot er gevorfn af mir a kli-gever.' Elyohu Hanovi zogt im oykh as besr dervaytern zikh fun mlokhim. Moyshe Rabeynu dertseylt vegn Paron dos zelbike. Der sof fun mayse iz gor umbarikht. Dos bukh aleyn hot groyse oysyes; a kind fun elter fun an erekh 7 yor vet shoyn kenen leyenen aleyn. Di madreyge fun Yidish is s'rov Eropeyeshe, mit nit tsufil loshn-koydesh, mit a sakh gramen, vi s'toyg far a kind-mayse. Etlekhe gramatishe inyonim zaynen nit vi ikh hob zikh gelernt, vi lmoshl, 'er nemt veynen' anshtot 'er heybt on veynen', un partitsipn vos endikn zikh in -t, vu ikh hob gehert nor -en. Nisht kukendik af di gor kleyne pishtshivkes, ken ikh aykh ale zogn az dos bukh is oysergeveytlekh gut tsu leyenen tsu kinder fun yorn 3 biz 6 oder efsher gor hekher. Raphael Finkel [Mazltov*2, Raphael!. Mir hobn oikhet dos bukh, un ikh leyn es tsu die kinderlakh, ober mir hobn biz yetst nor geleynt a pur kapitlekh. Men ken es koifn fun dem National Yiddish Book Center (ze Digest-Message 03/1). -- DS] ------------------------ Digest-Message: 22/3 Date: Fri, 23 Feb 90 14:48:00 EST From: VISWANATH@draco.rutgers.edu Subject: Ortografie un dialekt ikh hob bakimen numer 21. es zet oys az alts arbet gut. agev, in shaykhes mit dem briv fun dem shrayber fun U. of Guelph, ikh volt firgelegt az mir darfn matriekh zayn tsu nitsn YIVO ortografiye, koch du un di vos kenen es. nor vayl a standard volt geholfen. dos iz ober, in gantsn nisht a forleg az men tur nisht nitsn dialekt! vos meynstu derbai? efsher hobn di andere korespondentn a meynung. meylekh ------------------------ Digest-Message: 22/4 From: dave@lsuc.on.ca (David Sherman) Date: Sun Feb 25 11:10:57 EST 1990 Subject: Vider a vortshpil Shoshana, who's almost 4, goes to a day-care. There's a little boy there who seems to have taken a liking to her, and always tries to hug and kiss her. His name is Amir (an Israeli name). I've concluded that the appropriate comment to Shoshana is "Bei Amir bist du shein"... ------------------------ SOF FUN NUMER 22 ------------------------ David (Daniel Moishe) Sherman, Toronto Moderator, mail.yiddish { uunet!attcan {AT&T Sites}!att pyramid!utai utzoo } !lsuc!dave dave@lsuc.on.ca attcan!lsuc!dave@uunet.uu.net