Adding Spanish as a National Language (hell, America)

[MaddLlama]

Originally Posted by gracie

yeah, know a bit. just individual words, few phrases.

i pretty well got 80% of the above text. and it's funny- the Yiddish i know comes from my Irish Catholic mother.

she grew up in Philly.

Haha, that's great! I've never known an Irish woman who speaks even a little Yiddish.

I actually got this in an e-mail from my husband's grandmother who is very much Jewish.

[MidnightBlue]

Originally Posted by MaddLlama

You guys SO did not get the joke. Get Jewscout in here, he'll think it's funny.

Well, now you know how I feel. Nobody ever laughs at my favorite joke:

An old lady on the subway walks up to a young man. "Verzei mir," she says, "redst tzu Yiddish?"

The obviously puzzled young man responds: "I beg your pardon?"

"Feh!" says the old lady. She walks up to another young man and asks, "Redst tzu Yiddish?"

"What?"

"Feh!" She walks up to a third young man. "Redst tzu Yiddish?!"

The young man nods. "Ja, maman, ich bin ein geborner Yiddish reder."

The old lady's face lights up. "Ach, ein Yiddish reder! Gott sei dank! Bitte, sag's mir: Does this train stop at 45th Street?"

[ayani]

gott in himmel, that's a gem!

haha! yeah. and who doesn't know at least several old new york jewish grandmothers who would seriosuly do that?