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VIDEO: Southern-Style Pecan Macaroons for Passover (Original Post) Behind the Aegis Mar 2023 OP
what fun! Kali Mar 2023 #1
You many know even more German than you think. Behind the Aegis Apr 2023 #2
that is what I thought at first Kali Apr 2023 #3

Kali

(55,740 posts)
1. what fun!
Fri Mar 31, 2023, 10:35 PM
Mar 2023

maybe I have picked up more German than I thought. or at least it sounds so comfortably familiar. haven't seen my freinds in 5 or 6 years. the pecan macaroons look good too. egg yolk coffee...eh not so much.

Behind the Aegis

(54,857 posts)
2. You many know even more German than you think.
Sat Apr 1, 2023, 02:10 AM
Apr 2023

If you were able to understand some of what was being said, your German helped, but they weren't speaking German. That's Yiddish!

Kali

(55,740 posts)
3. that is what I thought at first
Sat Apr 1, 2023, 02:20 AM
Apr 2023

but I was recognizing so many words I decided I was wrong. I haven't had much if any experience with Yiddish (other than common phrases used in English too)

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