Post 9iLoZYChfz7OWHHo0m by evan@radical.town
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 (DIR) Post #9iLnmei4hMeQVYe2xk by gazelle@femme.energy
       2019-05-01T01:11:31Z
       
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       English is an inferior language
       
 (DIR) Post #9iLoZYChfz7OWHHo0m by evan@radical.town
       2019-05-01T01:20:15Z
       
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       @gazelle Yiddish is much better except that I can’t read or write Yiddish only speak it
       
 (DIR) Post #9iLocgKttgwkbsc5iq by gazelle@femme.energy
       2019-05-01T01:20:56Z
       
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       @evan I could teach you to read it in a day. It has vowels.
       
 (DIR) Post #9iLoo6vvLlF8HjNej2 by byttyrs@queer.party
       2019-05-01T01:23:01Z
       
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       @gazelle @evan I love this as a tempting piece of information on Yiddish literacy. Try Reading Yiddish: It's Not an Abjad!
       
 (DIR) Post #9iLp0Xpt9VWvCHUDrM by gazelle@femme.energy
       2019-05-01T01:25:19Z
       
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       @byttyrs @evan lol well I mean Hebrew is much harder to read for that reason... Especially in common print like newspapers where the learners annotations are gone
       
 (DIR) Post #9iLpD2MbTdb1LskHJI by gazelle@femme.energy
       2019-05-01T01:27:35Z
       
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       @byttyrs @evan like in Hebrew "Evan" would be very hard to standardize. In Yiddish you just spell every letter out עוואן
       
 (DIR) Post #9iLpc9IsoMlK7DynB2 by byttyrs@queer.party
       2019-05-01T01:32:04Z
       
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       @gazelle @evan oh I mean, it makes perfect sense, I'm just glad to add "Yiddish has vowel letters" to the likes of "Mandarin verbs don't conjugate" as ~polyglot temptations~
       
 (DIR) Post #9iLptwK5oM754O1phI by gazelle@femme.energy
       2019-05-01T01:35:17Z
       
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       @byttyrs @evan lol yes for sure that's how I felt going from polish to Russian. People were like "don't worry the grammar is perfectly regular"
       
 (DIR) Post #9iLpz420Zyb6QO0seu by adoxographer@olds.town
       2019-05-01T01:36:11Z
       
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       @gazelle English is well and truly fucked, but it remains incredible for poets and novelists. Hard to beat having a million words.
       
 (DIR) Post #9iLq7P4MFEfXzO5YbA by gazelle@femme.energy
       2019-05-01T01:37:46Z
       
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       @adoxographer it's inefficient
       
 (DIR) Post #9iLq9bu9UguONPMqDA by adoxographer@olds.town
       2019-05-01T01:38:08Z
       
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       @gazelle Absolutely. And, thankfully, so is poetry 😉