the Sefer B’Tuv Yerushalayim relates that the Maharil Diskin refused to speak to a certain Talmid Chacham of Jerusalem because he used to spek only Loshon HaKodesh. Said the Maharil Diskin, “For generations we are accustomed to speaking Yiddish, not Loshon HaKodesh.”
p.s. However its possible that R’ Sonnenfeld later regretted this .He even answered the Mandate language census replying he spoke hebrew
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