The Joys of Yinglish
A look at the joining of English and Yiddish into ""Yinglish"" employs scholarship, humor, and linguistic anthropology to discuss the effects of the marriage of the two languages. Reprint. NYT.
A look at the joining of English and Yiddish into ""Yinglish"" employs scholarship, humor, and linguistic anthropology to discuss the effects of the marriage of the two languages. Reprint. NYT.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780451173782 (0451173783)
Publish date: September 1st 1992
Publisher: Signet
Pages no: 624
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Humor,
History,
Reference,
Humanities,
Language,
Dictionaries,
Literature,
Jewish,
Religion,
Judaism,
Judaica
The New Joys of Yiddish is a terrific reference and a really fun book to sit down and read. It's filled with folklore, jokes, stories and comics as well as really useful pronounciation guidelines. I don't think I would ever try to use the words here but it helps me understand Jewish literature a lit...
A wonderful book; I've decided that Yiddish is the language of humor and insults, and Rosten's witty prose style makes this book read more like entertainment than reference.
12 years ago
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