Yiddish Mailing List, Issue #40 May 9, 1991 95 lines =============================== Clarification / correction (David Sherman) Homophones (Borok Berk) What does this mean? (David Sherman) ------------------------ Digest-Message: 40/1 From: dave@lsuc.on.ca (David Sherman) Subject: Clarification/correction Date: Thu May 9 00:51:25 EDT 1991 In Digest-Message 39/3, I reproduced a message from Dovid-Noyekh Miller, and reply from Ari Davidow, that came from E-HUG, the Electronic Hebrew Users' Group mailing list. I mistakenly named the wrong Miller in the attributions at the top of issue #39. Also, the subject line that said "(minor yiddish discussion)" wasn't any reference to what came below; it was how the message arrived. Ths Yiddish discussion was "minor" in that it was a small portion of that particular issue of E-HUG, that's all. Ari tacked on that Subject line as an indication of why he was sending me that issue. That said, does anyone have further comments on Yiddish word processing? There is a Yiddish font for the Mac, called "Vilne". ------------------------ Digest-Message: 40/2 Date: Fri, 3 May 1991 15:40:00 -0400 From: BERK@zodiac.rutgers.edu Subject: reshime sholem aleykhem - iz do a kurtse reshime mit verter - say yidish say english. (af english, zey zaynen geruft "homophones".) efsher emetsn ken shtelen mer verter in der reshime? borok (bob berk) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- align, bench, bet, by (buy,bye), bin, build, cane, coo (coup), cook, cumin, cup, cushion, deal, dine, do (dew, due), elf, feel, felt, fun, gain, gate (gait) gay, get, haste, hazel, heft, hub, hut, ken, key, kindle, kine, knew (new), knit, light, men, mention, mitt, mitten, nigh, shine, sigh, show, tail (tale), tea, tighten, tile, ton, to (too, two), toot, tote, vane (vein), vent, vibe (?), vice (vise), vile, vine, volt, zing. iz do nokh mer verter vos fasn zikh nisht genoy in der reshime tsulib dem r/reysh untersheyd. air, board (bored), builder, deer, door, dry, ear, far, fared, fear, for, foreign, frayed, free, fry, gore, hair, hoar, ire, mark, mere, nor, poor, pour, rain, red, rise, rue, tear (tier), teller, tire, tore, tour, your (yore). ------------------------ Digest-Message: 40/3 From: dave@lsuc.on.ca (David Sherman) Subject: what does "nokhn mark" mean? Date: Thu May 9 01:04:57 EDT 1991 We have a cassette tape of Sholem Aleichem skits called "Di Kleine Mentchelekh", that we picked up at the Arbeter-Ring in NYC a few years ago. It has one delightful skit entitled "Kasrilivker Restauranen", in which a visitor comes to an [alleged] restaurant and tries to get a meal. (The visitor is played by Shmuel Rudzinski (sp?), whose voice is easily recognized if you've heard A Fidler Oifn Dakh a few times -- he played Tevye.) Having listened to the tape umpteen times while driving, I now understand almost all of this skit, except for a few expressions. One of the exchanges goes (the visitor is asking about possible foods he could eat): "Fish, iz do bei eikh gefilte?" "Nokhn mark fish -- a sheyne mayse". "Nito kein fish. Hm." [and he carries on to the next food] What's this expression "nokhn mark"? Have I mis-heard? A "mark" is the market, of course, but why "nokh"? After the market? Can someone clarify? Also, in what book would I find this particular skit printed? Something I might be able to order from the National Yiddish Book Center? ------------------------ SOF FUN NUMER 40 ------------------------ David (Donyel-Moyshe) Sherman, Toronto Moderator, mail.yiddish dave@lsuc.on.ca attcan!lsuc!dave@uunet.uu.net uunet!attcan!lsuc!dave {AT&T sites}!att!lsuc!dave