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Thread #32792   Message #2513503
Posted By: Uncle_DaveO
12-Dec-08 - 09:59 AM
Thread Name: Frequently misspelled/confused names.
Subject: RE: Frequently misspelled/confused names.
As to the problems of rendering Yiddish into English, I believe the appropriate orthographic scheme would be German spellings, because Yiddish is a Germanic language, really closely allied to modern day Deutsch. Thus "Bei mir", "schoen" "bist Du", and so on.

Dave Oesterreich