<div dir="ltr">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><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">thenderson@extremelabs.com</a>> wrote:<br></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">That sounds like a knock-off of
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of Yiddish" in 1968. There are sequels. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Joys_of_Yiddish" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Joys_of_Yiddish</a></div>
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