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RZehr wrote: ↑Thu May 23, 2024 3:47 pmGood job jeremy.

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Josh wrote: ↑Tue May 21, 2024 3:19 pm Szdfan,

Do you think the NFL should censure for, fire for, punish for, or otherwise disavow what this football player said in his speech?

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.