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“If holy people use something, … then it assumes a level of holiness?”

Sure! I dont think thats controversial. (though again i’m not sure what “holliness” means, if you prefer special/important/sacred perhaps thhat is a better descriptor)

“So a shtreimel is considered holy?”
Whose? Moshe Rabbeinu’s? sure! A Klal yisroel’s? All the more so. Though An individual shtreimel isnt quite the same as a language all of our ancestors spoke, And while not nearly as old nor as universal as Yiddish, i’d be willing to concede that there is some “holliness” to the tzura of a shtreimel

“A bieber hat is holy?”
ditto

” A pair of pants are holy?”
I don’t follow, why?

“Yiddish (and all other Jewish dialects) are the local goyim’s language written in Hebrew letters”
Um no.
I showed ZD’s sentence “Ich Vishtas Mamma Loshon Besser vi mein Redn” to a collegue )one of the “local goyim” he couldnt understand a word of it (though to be fair I do speak yiddish, and had some trouble)