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Quite seriously, what the hell is the PinYin in relation to Yiddish? I thought that was a standard for Chinese ideographs! 
The idiot also known as Capfka ...
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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! 
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PinYin -- Chinese
and Hepburn -- Japanese.
Imperial and Farnsworth I made up
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For anyone interested : The books by Andrew Greeley SJ featuring Bishop "Blackie" Ryan are rife with that cleric's use of "arguably." Really good reads for mystery lovers but if you hate arguably read at your peril.
This drives me crazy : "Do you mind me taking the car today?" when it should be "Do you mind my taking the car today?"
It's those "-ing" words that cause the trouble.
Off with their heads!
And if you think I am totally off the mark here, well, I don't care. It's my birthday and I'll think what I want. So there!
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If you think the - ing words cause trouble, just wait until Joe (caco)phony adds his "voice" to the chorus when we s xxx "Happy Birthday to You!" 
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none_be_missed
I have this song on a cd and the title list says it's "As someday it may happen". This is also the first line of the song.
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It's my birthday
Well, then HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Hev
"no longer a stranger..."
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About the "Do you mind me taking the car today?" vs. "Do you mind my taking the car today?" - I've heard the first one used as "do you mind me taking the car?" (should I stay here & do something while someone else takes the car?) and the second used as "do you mind anyone's taking the car?" (do you need the car?) I haven't heard it often - but sometimes; it's another language in process thingie, I think. And happy birthday! Tsyganka, who hopes you have a glorious plenty of them
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