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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 27 Apr 2021

      Jeet Heer Retweeted Shayna Weiss

      Aren't there many more people speaking Hebrew right now than Yiddish? (For reasons that are of course horrific).https://twitter.com/shaynamalka/status/1387057272686366723 …

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      Shayna Weiss @shaynamalka
      "I always tell people that we’ve got to stop speaking Hebrew and start speaking Yiddish. We have to speak the way regular people speak, the way voters speak." Is this 2021, or a Jewish Enlightenment periodical from the 18th century? https://www.vox.com/22338417/james-carville-democratic-party-biden-100-days …
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    2. Josh Marshall‏Verified account @joshtpm 27 Apr 2021
      Replying to @HeerJeet

      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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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 27 Apr 2021
      Replying to @joshtpm

      It's a metaphor that would work great if we were living in the 18th century!

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        1. Gedalia‏ @gedaliap 27 Apr 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet @joshtpm

          Not that dead in some parts of NY/NJ.

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        1. dedc79‏ @de79dc 27 Apr 2021
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          Even in Carville's childhood, if he came across a copy of the Jewish Daily Forward, it might have been in yiddish

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        1. Anya Kamenetz‏Verified account @anya1anya 27 Apr 2021
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          The ultra-Orthodox (Haredi/Hasidim) speak Yiddish, which makes ~1.5 million globally. I'm curious whether your average acculturated Jew knows more words of Yiddish or of Hebrew (or even knows which is which).

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        2. Josh Marshall‏Verified account @joshtpm 27 Apr 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          it would actually still work pretty well in the first half of the 20th century to in most parts of the US.

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        3. James Surowiecki‏Verified account @JamesSurowiecki 27 Apr 2021
          Replying to @joshtpm @HeerJeet

          It's funny that Carville used a metaphor that most Americans wouldn't understand in order to make the case that Dems need to speak in a way that most Americans will understand.

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        1. ThePurpleDrazi‏ @ThePurpleDrazi 27 Apr 2021
          Replying to @HeerJeet @joshtpm

          Thing is, I don't know if any other language combo would convey his point. I mean he COULD have said "You're speaking Latin when you should be speaking English" but I don't think that works as well.

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        1. pythonic_bob‏ @BobPythonic 27 Apr 2021
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          it's like the return of the repressed as he tries to wield that metaphor

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