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- Thu May 23, 2024 5:40 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: NFL “values”
- Replies: 42
- Views: 815
- Wed May 22, 2024 3:33 pm
- Forum: History
- Topic: MennoNet and Genealogy
- Replies: 48
- Views: 1099
Re: MennoNet and Genealogy
Wife: Speaking of genealogies and language similarities, I found out that the meaning of an ancestor’s maiden name was “grasping innkeeper”. Oy. :roll: This is not genealogically related, and doesn't give anything away, but my favorite fictional innkeeper name is Barliman Butterbur of Bree, proprie...
- Wed May 22, 2024 2:00 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: NFL “values”
- Replies: 42
- Views: 815
Re: NFL “values”
https://www.kget.com/sports/ap-commissioner-goodell-declines-to-expand-on-nfls-statement-on-chiefs-kicker-harrison-butker/ Commissioner Roger Goodell declined Wednesday to expand on the NFL’s statement distancing the league from comments made by Kansas City Chiefs kicker Harrison Butker during a com...
- Wed May 22, 2024 12:41 pm
- Forum: The Homestead
- Topic: Today ...
- Replies: 2586
- Views: 411054
Re: Today ...
Today is the first day of summer vacation. I'm exhausted. I feel like a truck hit me. Today I'm sleeping and resting as much as possible. Then I'll start cleaning house.
- Wed May 22, 2024 12:39 pm
- Forum: History
- Topic: MennoNet and Genealogy
- Replies: 48
- Views: 1099
Re: MennoNet and Genealogy
It is interesting to me that there are numerous words in the PA Deutsch that are also in Yiddish. I am not sure which direction the ' contamination ' went but I am guessing it was Schwaben Deutsch words that were taken into the Yiddish. Yiddish is influenced by High German, not Schwaben Deutsch. As...
- Tue May 21, 2024 8:21 pm
- Forum: History
- Topic: MennoNet and Genealogy
- Replies: 48
- Views: 1099
Re: MennoNet and Genealogy
It is interesting to me that there are numerous words in the PA Deutsch that are also in Yiddish. I am not sure which direction the ' contamination ' went but I am guessing it was Schwaben Deutsch words that were taken into the Yiddish. Yiddish is influenced by High German, not Schwaben Deutsch. As...
- Tue May 21, 2024 4:15 pm
- Forum: History
- Topic: MennoNet and Genealogy
- Replies: 48
- Views: 1099
Re: MennoNet and Genealogy
Yiddish is close to/influence by German. PA Dutch, as has been said, is really PA Deutsch. That is, Deutsch is German. So the Yiddish/Deutsch connection is pretty obvious. I can understand both bits of PA Dutch and Yiddish because of my fluency in High German. There's also a lot of Hebrew in Yiddis...
- Tue May 21, 2024 4:14 pm
- Forum: History
- Topic: MennoNet and Genealogy
- Replies: 48
- Views: 1099
Re: MennoNet and Genealogy
It is interesting to me that there are numerous words in the PA Deutsch that are also in Yiddish. I am not sure which direction the ' contamination ' went but I am guessing it was Schwaben Deutsch words that were taken into the Yiddish. Yiddish is influenced by High German, not Schwaben Deutsch. As...
- Tue May 21, 2024 3:57 pm
- Forum: History
- Topic: MennoNet and Genealogy
- Replies: 48
- Views: 1099
Re: MennoNet and Genealogy
Yiddish is close to/influence by German. PA Dutch, as has been said, is really PA Deutsch. That is, Deutsch is German. So the Yiddish/Deutsch connection is pretty obvious. I can understand both bits of PA Dutch and Yiddish because of my fluency in High German. There's also a lot of Hebrew in Yiddis...
- Tue May 21, 2024 3:52 pm
- Forum: Current Events
- Topic: NFL “values”
- Replies: 42
- Views: 815
Re: NFL “values”
No.
I don't think there's a point in getting outraged about something that hasn't happened.
I also think it's fair game for people to criticize Buckter.