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Tmesis (and other cool things): National Vocabulary Championship
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Tmesis (and other cool things). A blog run by a senior in high school, mainly discussing the topics of language and linguistics. And other cool stuff. Monday, February 18, 2008. I have mentioned in previous posts that I was studying for a vocabulary contest. I hadn't expected anything to come of it, but one night I came home to discover that I was one of 50 to-be-contestant nationwide on the National Vocabulary Championship. On the Game Show Network. How long are you going to be in LA? And we have a dict...
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Tmesis (and other cool things): Homophones
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Tmesis (and other cool things). A blog run by a senior in high school, mainly discussing the topics of language and linguistics. And other cool stuff. Tuesday, February 26, 2008. Yiddish is infamous for its vocabulary that draws on both European and Middle-Eastern languages. It is therefore no surprise that there are in Yiddish, one from Hebrew and the other from German. In my dialect (Southern/Galician Yiddish): דורך is pronounced " derekh. The second word is amolik. April 7, 2008 at 9:14 AM. Looking ba...
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Tmesis (and other cool things): February 2008
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Tmesis (and other cool things). A blog run by a senior in high school, mainly discussing the topics of language and linguistics. And other cool stuff. Thursday, February 28, 2008. Verb oyfn tsveytn ort. Once again in response to Becca's insightful question:. There is a concept in Yiddish, and by extension, I assume, in several Germanic languages, of verb oyfn tsveytn ort. The verb takes the second syntactical position in a sentence, no matter what. Take the Yiddish sentence ikh bin gegangen in shul.
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Tmesis (and other cool things): Neuter Noun Endings
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Tmesis (and other cool things). A blog run by a senior in high school, mainly discussing the topics of language and linguistics. And other cool stuff. Tuesday, February 26, 2008. It didn't occur to me till today (I haven't read any Yiddish textbooks, so I feel like it says this in all of them) that common neuter noun in Yiddish that are not diminutives have common plural endings:. And the list goes on. is that a commonly known thing? Has anyone seen this pattern before? February 28, 2008 at 4:38 PM.
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Tmesis (and other cool things): Sorry about that...
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Tmesis (and other cool things). A blog run by a senior in high school, mainly discussing the topics of language and linguistics. And other cool stuff. Saturday, February 16, 2008. Disc úlpenme que no he escrito nada el mes pasado - estaba bastante ocupado. Esperen una cascada de posts en un futuro inmediato! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Sites Worthy of a Peek (or seven). Verb oyfn tsveytn ort. View my complete profile.
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Tmesis (and other cool things): January 2008
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Tmesis (and other cool things). A blog run by a senior in high school, mainly discussing the topics of language and linguistics. And other cool stuff. Sunday, January 20, 2008. On a recent trip to the Poconos, our family went horseback riding (we found out later that they were really mules). Two of the three guides were actually German and spoke a dialect called Schwäbisch (sounds like shvedish. Akin to the Yiddish shlepn. 8235;שלעפּן , whereas standard German uses the more common schleifen. Is most pro...
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