Spelling that makes you cringe

[Ian H]

I agree. This one was originally written in Yiddish, so I'll start studying. 

That's one-nil to you. 

[Cudzoziemiec]

איך בין נישט קאַונטינג.

(That's weird. Google produced a translation written from right to left, as you'd expect for Yiddish. I pasted it in here and it got automatically turned round.)

[fuaran]

Phaff.

[Mr Larrington]

Indeed.  What would Psmith have made of it?

[Ian H]

Phaff.

To faff pretentiously.

[hellymedic]

איך בין נישט קאַונטינג.

(That's weird. Google produced a translation written from right to left, as you'd expect for Yiddish. I pasted it in here and it got automatically turned round.)

Ich bin nicht ??counting??

Never could do Yiddish; over to Ham...

[Cudzoziemiec]

Yes. I asked Google to translate "I'm not counting" in response to IanH's "one-nil". I've no idea how to say it! But I'm not surprised if it sounds like German.

[hellymedic]

Aah, makes sense now.
Yiddish is scorned as ''Schlecht Deutsch' by those who speak Hochdeutsch and Google leaves anything it can't translate untranslated.
It uses Hebrew characters, which are fairly strictly phonetic so that if you can read Hebrew, you can muddle Yiddish.

[Asterix, the former Gaul.]

Efficacy.  I mean if it pronounced ɛfɪkəsi why not spell it like that?

[Ham]

איך בין נישט קאַונטינג.

(That's weird. Google produced a translation written from right to left, as you'd expect for Yiddish. I pasted it in here and it got automatically turned round.)

Ich bin nicht ??counting??

Never could do Yiddish; over to Ham...

רעכענען (Rech'nin)

... is the more appropriate word. There is a joke about being disappointed that the word for disappointed is, well, disappointed. They could have borrowed the german but I've always taken the German (enttauscht ? I think) to be more frustrated than disappointed (although AH may have a more informed view). FWIW, due to its bastard nature, I don't even count yiddish as a language I speak and have successfully avoided doing so for many years on the basis that it completely screws up my already not-that-fantastic German.

[Auntie Helen]

For me, enttäuscht is more disappointed or underwhelmed, but it can mean frustrated.

I should probably learn Yiddish as I learned Hebrew at Uni and speak German. But life's too short, I will ride my bike instead.

[T42]

Funny do, learning a language that's a mix of two languages you already know.  I'm fluent in French and German, but Alsatian leaves me dizzy.  The folk here seem to choose randomly whatever word, French or German, they're going use next, and then, from the point of view of either, mispronounce it.  Since they talk at normal speed, by the time my descrambler has caught up with sentence A they're already at H.

[orienteer]

Article in local rag about a school's award:

"To achieve it the school had to pass a rigourous assessment...."

[Ham]

Funny do, learning a language that's a mix of two languages you already know.  I'm fluent in French and German, but Alsatian leaves me dizzy.  The folk here seem to choose randomly whatever word, French or German, they're going use next, and then, from the point of view of either, mispronounce it.  Since they talk at normal speed, by the time my descrambler has caught up with sentence A they're already at H.

The closer they are, the harder to separate. I'd love to say I spoke any of Portuguese, Italian or Spanish properly (I don't really) but the most used of any of those three always surfaces, whichever I want to speak (Spanish is normally in the ascendant, to the extent that I don't consider the other two useable) Oddly, French doesn't enter the mix of confusion.

[T42]

I learnt the usual archaic and rudimentary French at school - souliers for shoes, etc. - but we moved here when I was in my 20s so it went in while I was still relatively receptive. German I learnt in my 30s, and was never quite as happy with it. Since then I've tried other languages but they don't stick. Immersion needed, I suppose.

[Cudzoziemiec]

איך בין נישט קאַונטינג.

(That's weird. Google produced a translation written from right to left, as you'd expect for Yiddish. I pasted it in here and it got automatically turned round.)

Ich bin nicht ??counting??

Never could do Yiddish; over to Ham...

רעכענען (Rech'nin)

... is the more appropriate word. There is a joke about being disappointed that the word for disappointed is, well, disappointed. They could have borrowed the german but I've always taken the German (enttauscht ? I think) to be more frustrated than disappointed (although AH may have a more informed view). FWIW, due to its bastard nature, I don't even count yiddish as a language I speak and have successfully avoided doing so for many years on the basis that it completely screws up my already not-that-fantastic German.

In this story, Polish Jew bumps into Lithuanian Jews and comments he can barely understand their Yiddish, which is not surprising.

[billplumtree]

Notice in the horriblemarket today:

Please be aware that we will have two minuets silence at 11am today

[hellymedic]

I've never heard a silent minuet...

[billplumtree]

I believe John Cage's 4'33 is in the form of, amongst others, a minuet.

[Ian H]

I believe John Cage's 4'33 is in the form of, amongst others, a minuet.

Is the 't' silent?

[Cudzoziemiec]

I believe John Cage's 4'33 is in the form of, amongst others, a minuet.

Is the 't' silent?

Depends whether you slurp.

[Andrij]

A local Asian shops advertises have a "Hair & Beauty Saloon" inside.

[Legs]

A local Asian shops advertises have a "Hair & Beauty Saloon" inside.

Go to "Grammar that makes you cringe"; go directly to "Grammar that makes you cringe"; do not pass Go; do not collect £200.
 

[Andrij]

A local Asian shops advertises have a "Hair & Beauty Saloon" inside.

Go to "Grammar that makes you cringe"; go directly to "Grammar that makes you cringe"; do not pass Go; do not collect £200.
 

   That's what I get for changing my mind on how I planned to word things part way through typing.    Let me try again...

A local Asian shop advertises the fact they have a "Hair & Beauty Saloon" inside.

[hellymedic]

'jewellry' twice and 'jeswellry' in today's online Evening Standard report on the trial of the Hatton Garden gang.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/gang-spent-three-years-planning-hatton-garden-heist-a3120936.html

A typo is understandable but the word is jewellery, I hope...