Tag: for some reason my straight white cis mother uses a LOT of yiddish words and I have no clue why

josieandthepussycatsofficial:

bottled-starlight:

josieandthepussycatsofficial:

josieandthepussycatsofficial:

this is actually a very interesting article

This looks like a really interesting article. Do you have a link?

yep! here it is:

https://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/language-literature-culture/pakn-treger/intimate-argot-american-jewish-speech-patterns