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From: lilandbr@scn.org (Leland Bryant Ross)
Subject: Re: Zamenhof's credentials (was Re: GENDER in Esperanto)
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Reply-To: lilandbr@scn.org (Leland Bryant Ross)
Organization: Seattle Community Network
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Date: Wed, 28 Aug 1996 03:35:33 GMT
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In a previous article, coby@euler.Berkeley.EDU (Coby Jacob) Lubliner) says:

>In article <Dwrxpr.FoH@scn.org>, Leland Bryant Ross <lilandbr@scn.org> wrote:
>
>>1. The primary home language of LLZ's early childhood was Russian; his
>>parents, especially his father, while never denying their Jewishmness,
>>were modernizers, neither very religious nor opposed in principle to
>>assimilation.  I am inclined to doubt whether Yiddish was much used in his
>>home, 
>
>But would he not have spoken it with his grandparents and other
>relatives who were more traditional?  I think it would take a couple
>of generations of assimilation for Yiddish to disappear in an
>Eastern European Jewish family.
>
Vi sendube pravas; mi neniom dubas tion, ke LLZ *ja scipovis* la jidan, 
kaj ke gxi meritas lokon en la listo.  Mi cxikanas nur pri la ordo de la 
vico, kie mi dubas, cxu la jida (malgraux gxia kromnomo "mame loshn" t.e. 
"panja lingvo") efektive meritis cxe li la *unuan* lokon en la vico, kiel 
Golden ordigis gxin.

Doubtless you're right; I don't doubt for a moment that LLZ *did know* 
Yiddish, nor that it deserves a place in the list.  I'm only quibbling 
over the order of the list, since I doubt whether Yiddish (its nickname 
"Mame-Loshen" notwithstanding) really deserves in his case the *first* 
slot, which is how Golden ordered the list.

Liland
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