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“English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up around a gnarly core of chewy, clangorous yawps derived from ancestors who painted themselves blue to frighten their enemies.”

Enemy Influence Blue Core Ancestor Outrageous Yiddish Gnarly

Book:Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof; Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips, and Secret Parts, Tinctures, Tonics, and Essences; With Examples of Their Usage Foul and Savory

Source: Alphabet Juice: The Energies, Gists, and Spirits of Letters, Words, and Combinations Thereof; Their Roots, Bones, Innards, Piths, Pips, and Secret Parts, Tinctures, Tonics, and Essences; With Examples of Their Usage Foul and Savory

“If you want your dreams to come true, don't oversleep.”

Ifs Want Dream Your Dreams Yiddish Fulfilling Dreams Fulfilling Your Dreams Wild Dreams

Author:Nicky Gumbel

“Yiddish for gall, nerve, arrogance-whatever”

Arrogance Nerves Yiddish

Book:The Immigrants

Source: The Immigrants

“Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.”

“When one must, one can.”

Yiddish

Author:Charlotte Whitton

“Yiddish has a down-to-earth quality that makes it remote from high-flown rhetoric, and it has a catch-as-catch-can charm derived from its stunning variety-of syntax, spelling, pronunciation, and vocabulary-from region to region.”

Earth Language Quality Variety Charm Regions Rhetoric Vocabulary Stunning Down To Earth Spelling Syntax Yiddish Pronunciation

Author:Israel Shenker

“I'm Italian, but some people think I'm Jewish because I work the Yiddish. I also work the Italian, by the way.”

People Thinking Way Italian Yiddish

Author:Joy Behar

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