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Dan Fixes Coin-Ops
Dan Fixes Coin-Ops
@ifixcoinops@retro.social  ·  activity timestamp last week

Still thinking about Germany growing too much potatoes and ending up with four thousand tonnes of potatoes that need eaten and setting up a website to distribute the potatoes because frankly they have too many potatoes and it's actually a problem how many potatoes there are in Germany and they need trucks to take the potatoes and mouths to eat the potatoes

Neville Park
Neville Park
@nev@status.nevillepark.ca replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

@ifixcoinops When I took Yiddish the professor taught us this song to learn the names of the days of the week. In Yiddish, the Slavic "bulbe" (בולבע) is more common in some dialects (although "kartofl" [קאַרטאָפֿל] is also a word).

Zuntik, bulbes,
Montik, bulbes,
Dinstik un mitvokh, bulbes,
Donershtik un fraytik, bulbes,
Shabes in a novene—a bulbe-kugele!
Zuntik, vayter bulbes!

Sunday, potatoes,
Monday, potatoes,
Tuesday and Wednesday, potatoes,
Thursday and Friday, potatoes,
Shabes, for a change—a potato kugel!
Sunday, potatoes again!

#יידיש #yiddish

Potato kugel - Wikipedia

Sample map from Atlas of Northeastern Yiddish

https://yiddishsongs.org

Bulbes

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Evan Bradley
Evan Bradley
@yEvb0@lingo.lol  ·  activity timestamp 5 months ago

I had luck last time on the badsite; let's see how lingo/fedi can do:

this term I'm teaching an intro linguistics course with a typology/diversity lens

I love to harness the expertise of myfriends/colleagues to show students languages that I know very little about

SO if you know/use/study a language that's not normative AmEng, I need YOU to tell my students why your language is cool! 🧵

Neville Park
Neville Park
@nev@status.nevillepark.ca replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 months ago
@yEvb0 Yiddish. Because פאַרוואָס ניט? Thanks for coming to my TED talk

(cc @carkner, uhhh I haven't had coffee yet can't remember everyone else on here)

#yiddish #יידיש

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Neville Park
Neville Park
@nev@status.nevillepark.ca  ·  activity timestamp 5 months ago

"You've been breathing for years, ma!"
"It ain't easy."

#Monsterdon

Neville Park
Neville Park
@nev@status.nevillepark.ca replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 months ago

"no-goodnik plant" lmao

#Monsterdon #Yiddish #יידיש

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Neville Park
Neville Park
@nev@status.nevillepark.ca  ·  activity timestamp 5 months ago

Time for "The Little Shop of Horrors" (1960) on #Monsterdon! 🧵

Neville Park
Neville Park
@nev@status.nevillepark.ca replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 months ago

Glorying in all the Yiddishism here. "You want I should…" "…for to…" and wait, is the mourning customer called Mrs. Shiva?

#Monsterdon #Yiddish #יידיש

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Neville Park
Neville Park
@nev@status.nevillepark.ca  ·  activity timestamp 5 months ago
#DraculaDaily / #ReDracula August 12: Jonathan's alive!!!

Side note, VA Ben Galpin's best moment is not actually in Re: Dracula; it's his absolutely unhinged reading of a Dracula version of the infamous "Jurgen Leitner rant"* from #TheMagnusArchives / #tma fandom. I especially like his reading of "I would piss on God's feet". (mp3, post)

(mp3, feed)

Neville Park
Neville Park
@nev@status.nevillepark.ca replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 months ago
  • A fan's rant in some Discord occasioned by a recurring background character being mentioned in the podcast one too many times. This is my favourite rendition.

    Incidentally, Yiddish emerged about a thousand years ago, solidly in the medieval period—so there is no such thing as "ancient Yiddish" and the earliest form would pretty much be Middle High German.

    Also, I've mentioned this before on a previous account, but I don't think there's a direct equivalent to "to fuck up" in Yiddish. There's a lot of words for a person who fucks up, and for general fucked-upness, but as far as I know there isn't an obscene verb for fucking up. If anyone knows more, please tell me.

    #tma #yiddish #יידיש

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