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Anyone speak Hebrew and/or Yiddish?
« on: July 10, 2004, 04:48:47 PM »
Does anybody know what the following means: Iisgadal rejiiskadisch schemel robo. It's a line from Karen Blixen's/Isak Dinesen's Seven Gothic Tales. In the story The Dreamers the jew Marcus says this when Pellegrina dies at the end. I guess it's Yiddish or Hebrew. :-?

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'Yiddish' as it's called in English according to wikipedia :-).

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Re: Anyone speak Hebrew and/or Jiddisch?
« Reply #1 on: July 10, 2004, 09:49:10 PM »
Cheers mate! :pint: A mourning prayer does indeed make sense. Yeah I googled every word separate and was surprised that I got exactly zero hits :-).

One question though, is it Yiddish or Hebrew? :inquisitive:

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Re: Anyone speak Hebrew and/or Jiddisch?
« Reply #2 on: July 10, 2004, 10:54:04 PM »
Eh?

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Ah. Aramaic is a language spoken in the Levant and Mesopotamia from perhaps 700 BC until the present day. It is a member of the Semitic languages group.

Today Aramaic is spoken among about 500,000 native speakers(with varying degrees of fluency) in scattered communities across the Fertile Crescent.

Gods, I love Wikipedia :afro:.