yes, but this represents a very old school way of thinking about Hebrew versus Yiddish. Also, someone else suggested perhaps it was in the context of Haredi voters. But either way it's wild.
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Maybe not in parts of the tri-state area.
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Probably so, though Yiddish is a growing language! (Thanks largely to the Hasidic population, which maybe isn't the secular blue collar idea Carville has in mind...)
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And it now being on DuoLingo.
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I found that passage fascinating, largely because it's so obscure. I think he's picked up from a quite dated period when Hebrew is liturgical and Yiddish is the common tongue. But today Hebrew is the language of a whole country & Yiddish is all but a dead language.
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It's a metaphor that would work great if we were living in the 18th century!
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Noticably more than 10x Hebrew speakers vs. Yiddish speakers. But I'm assuming Carville is speaking more in a cultural sense, about the working-class vs the elite. It's an interesting way to try to say that, though of course it has challenges in actually meaning that.
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As Grandma used to say, Carville can gay cocken offen yom!
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in israel yes, in new york perhaps not
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He's a guy with a heavy Louisiana accent. I feel there might have been an analogy closer to home for him.
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