Why can't the Yiddish experts standardize their orthography?Says one source:
The authoritative YIVO Institute for Jewish Research has tried energetically to create a standard Yiddish orthography, and standard rules for the transcription of Yiddish into Roman letters. These were "established" in 1937 -- and have been rather widely ignored ever since. Jewish philogists and editors, too, have attempted, not successfully, to set abiding standards and rules. ...
Part of the problem lay in the fact that certain linguistic rules, necessary for scholarly and scientific publications, are intensely resisted -- by the popular press, by deeply ingrained habits, and by the preferences of influential Jews to whom their own version of the vernacular remains sacrosanct.In other words, this board is not the only population of ayleurs!
