Reply To: The Casualties of Yiddish in Litvishe Chadorim

To Mammele….I was seeking to be a bit over the top in response to someone suggesting that restricting the language skills of children to Yiddish only is a good idea because it might help reduce or prevent assimilation. I personally find that abusive to the child in that it makes it more likely that such child will have major difficulties when he seeks to marry and support a family and discovers his inability to communicate renders him dysfunctional for most professions and careers and unable to earn a good parnassah to support himself and his family.