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Another example of how our language has been altered (media.scored.co)
posted 1 year ago by CottonHill on scored.co (+0 / -0 / +12Score on mirror )
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disoriented on scored.co
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They are indeed. German yiddish incorporated a great deal of German, including the syntax and suffixes. "Schmutz" (dirty) means the same in both German and yiddish, but "Schmuck" means jewelry in German. This is why there are subsets of yiddish that are heavy with vocabulary from where it was spoken, like Poland, Germany, Lithuania, or Russia.

The word "faggot" comes from is German "Vogel" (pronounced fohgel) and "Vögel" (pronounced faygel, more or less) and means "bird" or "birds".
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