Marty Green

788 reputation

210

bio	website	marty-green.blogspot.com
	location	Canada
	age
visits	member for	1 year, 9 months
	seen	May 17 at 18:52
stats	profile views	25

	788 reputation	bio	website	marty-green.blogspot.com	visits	member for	1 year, 9 months
210 badges		location	Canada		seen	May 17 at 18:52

summary answers questions tags badges favorites bounties reputation activity

174 Actions

suggestions reviews revisions comments badges posts accepts all

Jan 28	answered	How should I ask politely for a moment of someone's time?
Jan 23	comment	Welchen Ursprung hat das Wort “Pustekuchen”? Poschut is a different word from the Slavic pust; it comes from the Hebrew and it means "plain".
Jan 23	revised	Max and Moritz in alternating German dialects added one more dialect
Jan 23	suggested	suggested edit on Max and Moritz in alternating German dialects
Jan 23	answered	Welchen Ursprung hat das Wort “Pustekuchen”?
Jan 22	comment	Max and Moritz in alternating German dialects The brilliant and reclusive Leah Robinson has translated Max and Moritz into Yiddish. Here is a short excerpt. I have altered the phonetic YIVO-institute transcription to make it more German-friendly. The words in italics are of Hebrew origin, except for tcheppen which is Slavic. >Oy, wie oft hört men bei leut (rhymes with fright) >Schlechts vun kind in unser zeit! >Ot vun asa pâar mir wéissen (rhymes with caisson) >Wâs séi Schmul un Schmerkeh héissen >‘Stâtts zu musar sich zuhören (rhymes with sharin') >Un zu mitzvos sich zu kehren >Fleggen séi b’sod sein lachers, >Un derzu noch _khoyze
Jan 22	comment	Is Yiddish a dialect of German? Yes, of course you're right about culture and politics. But am I wrong or isn't it Slovakian/Czech and Croatian/Serbian?
Jan 22	accepted	Spittings, shellings, etc
Jan 22	comment	Spittings, shellings, etc Yes, that's perfect. What dialect is that found in, and can you think of any more examples?
Jan 22	revised	Is Yiddish a dialect of German? deleted 19 characters in body
Jan 22	asked	Is Yiddish a dialect of German?
Jan 22	revised	Spittings, shellings, etc added 175 characters in body
Jan 22	comment	Spittings, shellings, etc Yes, of course Yiddish has "ung" as well. The funny thing about the "echts" ending is that it always seems to make an unsavory substance out of an action.
Jan 22	asked	Spittings, shellings, etc
Jan 12	answered	Is it acceptable to omit umlauts and put an extra 'e' instead?
Dec 21	accepted	“noch immer” vs “immer noch”
Dec 20	comment	Continuing situations in German Let me add that "immer noch" is a favorite phrase of mine: I use it in the clubs when I sing the last verse of Bobby Helms' "Frauelein": "bei die Stirne so hoch, ich liebe dich immer noch" (my own broken German translation). I hate to think I am expressing a more negative sentiment than intended. Would it be the same if I sang "ich liebe dich noch immer"?
Dec 20	comment	Continuing situations in German Because once a discussion goes so deep into the comment field it doesn't appear live to the wider audience. My question deals with a specific nuance: it is true that the correspondents in this thread have told me I am mistaken, but I can't quite believe it. I am only a long-time student of German, but I never knew the negative connotation of "noch immer" until the discsussion several months ago; and now, in the present discussion, it is claimed there there is no distinction between noch immer vs immer noch. I just want the question before a wider audience.
Dec 20	asked	“noch immer” vs “immer noch”
Dec 20	comment	Continuing situations in German Okay, you guys are right, the question of noch immer vs immer noch was touched on only peripherally in that other discussion. I'm going to post it as a fresh question.