@uneeq: actually I wasn’t born frum and I don’t really know Yiddish all that well, I just manage to follow it (reading things such as Der Yid, Der Blatt and seforim, and listening) without any problems and can speak it quite good as well, but that’s only because I learned German as a child already, and since I pick up languages quite easily I can adapt to (PROPER) Yiddish without much of a problem.
I do get a bit annoyed at “American Yiddish” which is totally strange, such as the above “farshteist” – it’s “farshteit”, without the last s (original German: “versteht” – the only difference is instead of “versteht” which is pronounced, for Americans, as “vershtate”, we pronounce it as “vershteit”). Or people writing “um” instead of “un” (we discussed that recently). Proper Yiddishe sforim don’t write like that. I have “Dibros Kodesh” of Satmar right here next to me and it doesn’t write that anywhere. For example, “ours” is ???????, not ???????. Also Yidden is written properly: ????? – from German “Juden”. It is NOT ????? or anything like that.
Those who write such things simply don’t know the language properly…. we saw these words a while ago:
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Proper spelling would be:
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And indeed you find Google results for that also from hebrewbooks.org, from others who do indeed know how to write it correctly.
The fact that modern-day American (and even E”Y) Yiddish-speakers don’t know how to write Yiddish properly doesn’t change that… unfortunately.