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1. LS (lain@lain.com)'s status on Saturday, 18-Nov-2023 07:53:08 JST LS
   You can tell that most jews were either Germans or Russians by the fact they were autistic enough to invent modern Hebrew instead of just continue to speak Yiddish
   • LS (lain@lain.com)'s status on Saturday, 18-Nov-2023 08:02:33 JST LS

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     • kaia
     @kaia ganz schön meschugge
   • kaia (kaia@brotka.st)'s status on Saturday, 18-Nov-2023 08:02:34 JST kaia

     in reply to
     @lain Yiddish was seen as an uneducated rural language, cf. Kafka's lecture on Yiddish. taking Yiddish would also have been unfair towards the Sephardim. and after WW2 speaking a Germanic language became uncool for some reason :ChenShrug: