Re: S???iz shver tsu zayn a weisser



In article <5gu1v35uedorl54iaiilukircpa1mr5s5v@xxxxxxx>,
Rumpelstiltskin <PleaseDoNotReplyByEmail@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 03:23:59 -0500, Jean Smith
<go_termite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <4qa0v3d3sdingil2lq59nj7tud779gsisa@xxxxxxx>,
Gary <not@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

My thoughts after realizing that my tribe is becoming a minority in
this country.

Thank goodness for Google
http://zemerl.com/cgi-bin//show.pl?title=Shver+Tzu+Zayn+A+Yid


I don't know yiddidsh, but I figured the meaning out
from the similarity to German. The difference between
the song and what Gary wrote is of course "weisser"
(white one) instead of "Yid".

The Google German translator threw-up so I tried a general search.

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