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In the German tongue, in the Polish town
Scraped flat by the roller
Of wars, wars, wars ...
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The main thing is that the 'C' is silent, so it kind of starts with a 'Z.' Z-O-O-K-RIE. It's Ukrainian, on my dad's side.
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depends on all of the people who use the language.
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To God I speak Spanish, to women Italian, to men French, and to my horse - German.
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I'm a multi-lingual Kundalini-dancing shapeshifter to the 69th degree.
I know French, Italian, Arabic, Egyptian Arabic, Greek, Latin, Gaelic, Scottish, English, and American English.
I'm cunninglingual.
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Out here we speak Malspeak, a mangle of English and old languages like Spanish, Mandarin, and Russian. Dialects from a time when the land was defined by many borders. Now there's only one that matters. And I am on the wrong side of it.
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Hebrew in America has a bemusing past. The Puritans, out of scriptural piety, once dreamed of establishing Hebrew as the national language.
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I have heard no word of my own language; I am rendered dumb.
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The Eskimos have four hundred words for snow, and the Jewshave four hundred for schmuck.
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Different languages cut the world into different slices.
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Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do I see as much misery, disappointment, desperation and hopelessness as in Jewish writers who write in German.
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In my house, we speak Spanglish to the dogs, to the grandchildren, to the kids.
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Bad English was the second language of Israel and bad Hebrew, of course, remained the national language.
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One of the stranger things about me is that I was raised as an Orthodox Jew. I went to a yeshiva until I was thirteen years old and spoke fluent Hebrew.
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I am of Russian-Jewish distraction.
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I just love dialects; they're really fun.
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Of all the languages that have existed upon the Earth, the Hebrew language is unique and extraordinary in its ability to paint vivid pictures with words that lodge within the heart conveying deep and profound Truth".

~R. Alan Woods [2012]
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My mind speaks English, my heart speaks Russian, and my ear prefers French.
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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.
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Mom spoke to us in Swiss when we were little.
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I'm pretty good with languages.
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Armenian is the language to speak with God.
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Welsh is an actual, currently used language and our next-door neighbors Angela and Gaenor spoke it. It sounds like Wizard.
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The Jewish people have been in exile for 2,000 years; they have lived in hundreds of countries, spoken hundreds of languages and still they kept their old language, Hebrew. They kept their Aramaic, later their Yiddish; they kept their books; they kept their faith.
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How do Polish people spell farm? E-I-E-I-O
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I speak Farsi, German, Dari, and I understand Turkish, but I haven't used it since 1985, so I'm a bit rusty.
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It's it, it's them it really doesn't matter. The languages are complex, as far I can tell.
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I don't know or understand any other language except the language of kindness.
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I am most familiar with the Gujarati language.
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she likes the sound of languages other than English.
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I might sing a gospel song in Arabic or do something in Hebrew. I want to mix it up and do it differently than one might imagine.
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Nothing is so impenetrable as laughter in a language you don't understand.
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Bringing you 'raisins and almonds' and words (from a Yiddish lullaby
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When I first began to combine letters other than Hebrew, I read every book in German that came my way, and from these I certainly received according to the nature of my soul.
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The language itself, whether you speak it or not, whether you love it or hate it, is like some bewitchment or seduction from the past, drifting across the country down the centuries, subtly affecting the nations sensibilities even when its meaning is forgotten.
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Unlike their brethren in the Holy Land, Diaspora Jews spoke Greek, not Aramaic: Greek was the language of their thought process, the language of their worship.
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I hope the English-speaking world can see that I'm not only an Israeli actress.
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For my part, it was Greek to me.
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Language is a spiritual mansion in which you live and nobody has the right to evict you.
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I am a little Jew of Vitebsk. All that I paint, all that I do, all that I am, is just the little Jew of Vitebsk.
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I learned Hebrew from a high school teacher named Mr. Cohen. We would drive down the highway to meet his car, and Jewish boys from these Massachusetts towns would sit in his car and learn the lessons.
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You don't talk to a linguist without having what you say taken down and used in evidence against you at some point in time.
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The Dream of a Common Language
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The Italians have voices like peacocks - German gives me a cold in the head - and Russian is nothing but sneezing
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How charmed I am when I overhear a German word which I understand!
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It is a fact that the classics of Yiddish literature are also the classics of the modern Hebrew literature.
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heard in America's streets. Yiddish theaters are still drawing crowds, and off-color humor fueled by vaudeville, jazz, and burlesque is flourishing in the Jewish Riviera resorts of the Catskills. Jewish humor
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People think of black English as ungrammatical, but it bears the same relationship to standard English as contemporary Hebrew does to ancient Hebrew.
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When you steal a people's language, you leave their soul bewildered.
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To the non-Swiss ear it sounds as if the speaker is construing made-up words from the oddest rhythms and the queerest clipped consonants and the most perturbing arrangement of gaping, rangy vowels.
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I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.
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When I was a little boy, I thought when I grew up I would talk Yiddish. I thought little kids talked English, but when they became adults, they would talk Yiddish like the adults did. There would be no reason to talk English anymore, because we would have made it.
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I come from French Cajun Jewish people.
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The only international language in the world is a child's cry,
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I have a good ear for languages.
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My language is the sum total of myself.
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Metaphors, similes, puns - all manner of metonymy - I'm interested in language that cannot be parsed by a machine - language that can only be understood through acculturation.
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Latin, Greek, and English, plus a smattering of Italian and fucking French." "Fucking French, you say? Well . . ." "Oui," said I, in perfect fucking French.
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I never knew what language they'd lapse into when fucked - Urdu or Telugu or a mix of both (only the techies came in English).
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Donald Trump did his usual softball interview on "Fox News" where the interviewer agreed with Trump that using that Yiddish vulgarity is going to be OK for him.
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It is time for dead languages to be quiet.
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It's amazing how insults in most languages sound the same.
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The language looks rather different when you look at a lot of it at once.
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There is no language of the holy. The sacred lies in the ordinary.
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I speak some dwarvish.
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Plutarch gave her nine languages, including Hebrew and Troglodyte, an Ethiopian tongue that - if Herodotus can be believed - was unlike that of any other people; it sounds like the screeching of bats.
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We need no language to laugh
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She is written in a foreign tongue.
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If you love language, it will love you back.
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I couldn't be certain, but I think Rose swore in Russian.
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Being that most everyone knew Latvian and Russian, it was the only indication.
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Languages are not strangers to on another.
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The Armenian language cannot be worn out; its boots are stone. Well, certainly, the thick-walled words, the layers of air in the semi-vowels.
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Sorry - Quoth. It's the language of storms. They're great poets, some of them.
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I think somebody who speaks the language is going to notice immediately that I'm not Russian.
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I may speak many languages, but there remains one in which I live.
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Finnish is not a language, it is a way of setting at the end of the bench with your fur cap pulled over your ears.
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Afrikaans is my first language, although you would never know, as my English accent has more of an American-British thing going on from all my years of travelling.
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A frightful dialect for the stupid, the pedant and dullard sort.
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I speak some French, Spanish, a little German and Gaelic.
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When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.
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Ay, is it not a language I speak?
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I have my own language and it's high time I put a little of it out there.
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My father who in this case was an obsessive life-long storyteller, and by a very peculiar trick of my father's. My father would tell a very, very long story, and the punch line would be in Yiddish.
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I speak Urdu quite a lot, too, and I read a lot of Persian.
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The dirty Arab children sold peanuts from the top of the basket and hashish from the bottom. They spoke a masterful unintimidated French in guttural gasps, coming from a land where it was regarded neither as the most beautiful language, as in America, nor the only one, as in France.
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I can speak four dialects, but none of them is fairy language.
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Smile, jew. Dance, jew. Tell me you love me, jew ... I got the extermination blues, jewboys. I got the hitler syndrome figured
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The English language was carefully, carefully cobbled together by three blind dudes and a German dictionary
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A few metres ahead, a young soldier with a belly wound was pleading in Russian. Peter couldn't understand any of it - except of course the one word that was the same in German. 'Mama...
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It is my great good luck the words I use are English words, which means I live in a very old nation of open borders; a rich, deep, multi-layered, promiscuous universe, infused with Latin, German, French, Greek, Arabic and countless other tongues.
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The ways in which language changes never ceases to interest me.
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Any friendship or relationship is about a language.
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A laugh is a laugh, in any language.
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In the interstices of language lie powerful secrets of the
culture.
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Jews are the intensive form of any nationality whose language and customs they adopt.
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Languages are the pedigree of nations.
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My name is actually Polish. It's my husband's name. Most people say 'Zaw-stak,' but it's 'Show-stack,' like you're going to a show, eating a stack of pancakes.
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Language isn't about the words. It's about the transfer of meaning.
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No - simple to pronounce, hard to say.