<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I only use Yiddish when writing for a specifically Jewish audience.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">-A</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 22, 2019, at 2:44 PM, Perlow, Jason <<a href="mailto:jperlow@gmail.com" class="">jperlow@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">I used to throw in Yiddish into my columns and I got too many comments from people that they didn't understand what I was saying. So I've stopped that practice.</div><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jan 22, 2019 at 2:39 PM Tom Henderson <<a href="mailto:thenderson@extremelabs.com" class="">thenderson@extremelabs.com</a>> wrote:<br class=""></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div dir="auto" class="">That sounds like a knock-off of
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