Reply To: Is Yiddish Holy?

Avi
why is “mutually intelligible” a contradiction to “separation “?
And as you may know, some geographers are saying that Europe is bigger than Switzerland, so even if Yiddish is “mutually intelligible” in Switzerland. It obviously isnt (and wasn’t) in the rest of Europe including Czechoslovakia and Poland.
I dont want to argue with the authority of your esteemed friend’s wife., and I havent spoke to many Swiss,, so it is possible that in some areas of Switzerland they do speek a more “yidishized” German, but I have spoken to several Germans and while they marveled and the similarity of some words they did not understand yiddish, and the too are not “mutually intelligible”