The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-20
reading from right to left. he should
repeat softly to himself:
Sample Of Yiddish.

reading from right to left, he should
repeat softly to himself:
Sample of Yiddish.
chiz neginiieraf netalf ehsissur
ruhtra trop mai tretemhSuz nereW nesur
300, etc.
Reading from left to right, just to be
odd, we find the latest war bulletin
now runs:
russishe faten fareinigen zich
russ1she faten fareiinigen zich
800 ruSen Weren Zushmetert ain port
arthur makarow hat gemacht a guten
plan aiub admiral togo wet aihm net be-
zlltens Zerashteren gesezt ain kohn ale
rusishe kreigs chifen
grause ybshhv mlchnh erwartet
The four last words, it should be
mentioned, were accidentally omitted
from the original as reproduced.
This Yiddish tale of Oriental hap
penings contains, as any high school
pupil will detect, many German words
some good German and other German
mat Is queer" to say the least. But
Ylddish, when printed in metropolitan
| newspapers, includes a larger proper
ton of German, and Of good German,
II is said, than does most ,colloquial
Y1ddfsh. Russian and Polish words
and words from all languages except
German and Hebrew, are comparative
ly rare In newspaper Yiddish.
The equivalent of The Worlds bulle-
t1n as rendered into high German last
week by the local rabbi who translated
the Yiddish into English letters for
T h G o b e, is:
Russiche. dotten .vereinigen SIGH!
SO0 Russen warren zerschmettered In
Port Arthur!
Makarow hat gemacht Elm gluten plan,
wenn Admiral Togo wolfe.
INN NIGHT zeitlieh zeristoeren gezeigt in
kohn I'd ale Russische kre1gs sehiffe.
Grosser land krieg erwartet.
Rabbi Explains.
Our medieval German preserved by
the 'Yiddish-which name, by the way
Is merely a London corruption of the
German juedfseh," Jewish-shows, in
the foregoing specimen, one or more
peculiar idions, Including a different
order of words than of present day
high German. The 900" is simply the
worldwide Arabic numerals unchang-
ed. Makarow" is the name Of a Rus
sian admiral. plan" is both German
ana English; "kohn" has no exact Ger
| man equivalent, but means broadly
| said the rabbi, game, chance, hazard,
risk, etc. 1t wasn't Hebrew word
he said, he didn't think 1t was Rus
sian; it was certainly Yiddish, what
ever its origin. Land krieg,' land war,
war on land, translate directly two
'AiOOACW WOlQS, yDSnQ
which,. supplying the. understood VOW
! els, are 'yaboshoh .melchonah'' Very
hoary words are these; the Pilgrim fa-
theirs, with more faith than erudition
would have insisted that these words
We're spoken by Adam. Certainly it is
that "yaboshoh," land, the dry land, is
used in The Jewish World to describe
the Russian Japan war; the same word
was used in Genesis to describe the
Creation.
Why, didn't you understand? Beg
pardon-we should have mentioned
that, in English, our bulletin inform-
ed us:
Russian fleets combined!
900 Russians lost at Port Arthur!
Makarow has formed a good PLAN if
Admiral Togo is willing Chat is
doesn't interfere).
If he (Makarow) doesn't act in time
he will place all the Russian ships in
danger Of destruction.
Great war by land expected!
That's ALL" added the rabbi It's
easy enough to read, you see.-
Yes, we use considerable Hebrew in
ordinary Yiddish conversation. We al
ways use the Biblical names for church
days and seasons. We say 'Sabats for
Sabbath, 'Pesach' for Passover, sYom
Kepur' for Day of Atonement. Rosh
Shashono' for New Years, etc.
But we also say Of a child, Poor
little fellow, he's yosen an orphan.
And our young men say Of a pretty
young woman, just as syfnpathetically,
but not bit sadly, Handsome isn't
she? And, besides, you know, she's an
'almone.' He means. she's handsome
and a widow"