Is English Holy???

And it is the language of Pilots.

Captain™

No I don’t think you are
Let me explain

In a different thread, some posters posited, that Yiddish became a holy language, by dint of the fact that it has a long history of being spoken by Jews and / because much Torah has been communicated through it.

Therefore this poster is asking, if that applies today to English being as you have the same ideas, although obviously not the same history.
Namely, many jews speak it and a tremendous amount of Torah is learned and taught in it as well as many prayers are said using it.
We do know that until the expulsion of jews from England I believe in the 1200’s? There were jews living in England so presumably they spoke and learned in English as well as Hebrew.
So perhaps that gives English the holiness history as well.
Are we therefore to conclude that English is a holy language?
That seems to be the general idea of his post.
I’ll be happy to try to clarify any further questions

KY
“In a different thread, some posters posited, that Yiddish became a holy language, by dint of the fact that it has a long history of being spoken by Jews and / because much Torah has been communicated through it.”

You should reread that thread. Laskern is closer. The argument there was NOT (As was pointed out numerous times) that it is holy because it was “spoken by Jews”

and besides, as you point out even if that WAS the argument, the English comparison, still falls flat “although obviously not the same history.”
So clearly that can’t be the point of this game. Its not nice to interpret someone else’s post as saying something so silly.

I’ll keep trying :
Is Somali holy?

It is an Afroasiatic language belonging to the Cushitic branch.
It is the second most widely spoken Cushitic language after Oromo.
As of 2013, it is also one of the featured languages available on Google Translate.

You should reread that thread. Laskern is closer. The argument there was NOT (As was pointed out numerous times) that it is holy because it was “spoken by Jews”

So I went back to that thread and here is some of what I found.

JosephParticipant
Yiddish is holy by virtue of it being the primary and exclusive language of Jews for over a thousand years. Even if it is our chol language.

And some guy with a screen name ubiquitin wrote the following gem
“Yiddish was the Jewish language for about 1000 years (give or take depending on your source) . That makes it special? sacred? important? How can it not sure it wasnt used exclusivly used for “holy” talk but it was used by holy people, were all of them frum as some posters claim others are claiming, of course not, but as a group it was spoken by the am hanivchar, it is unquestionably a Jewish language, the jews being a holy people, we have consecrated it making it holy (or scared/important/special since I’m not clear on what exactly holy means.”

Maybe I have difficulty with the holy English language, (which as I pointed out before was clearly spoken by jews before their expulsion from England in 1290 making English an older Jewish language than Yiddish which oldest inscription is from a German machzor circa 1300’s ) but to me it seems pretty clear that these two posters at least, namely a Joseph and a Mr ubiquitin are certainly utilizing The idea that the fact that it has been used by jews for a long long time, infuses it with holiness? Speciality? Sacredness? Importance?

Ky

A few things, first of all as an aside your history is a bit shaky and at any rate 13 century English isn’t similar to ours (see the Yiddish thread for an example)

Secondly and more importantly you quote joseph
“Yiddish is holy by virtue of it being the primary and exclusive language of Jews for over a thousand years. ”

When you have a moment look up “exclusive” you don’t seem to know what it means
At least this part of your post “Maybe I have difficulty with the holy English language, ” is correct.

You also cut my post short as I put in the same limitation as Joseph, that you failed to copy.

So in your one post you displayed your ignorance of history, and of English as well as your dishonesty
Great stuff

KY
“And I’m the one with the English comprehension issues”

Lol, yes!

You skipped the second definition. (intentionally? Or just poor research? which way would dan lekaf zechus want me to assume, I’m sorry if I erred in my previous assumption when you left off some of my explanantion)
2. restricted or limited to the person, group, or area concerned.

“I’d really appreciate if you could quote the exact lines from your post that I maliciously left out.”

sure: “but as a group it was spoken by the am hanivchar, it is unquestionably a Jewish language, the jews being a holy people, we have consecrated it making it holy ”

THAT is the main point. Yiddish is holy because it is a JEWISH language, not because it was the language that just happened to be spoken by Jews. This was clarified over an over throughout that long silly thread.
Or as Joseph put it IT was the primary and exclusive language of Jews.

Now reasonable people can argue that that doesn’t make it “holy” (as Ive acknowledged several times, I’m not quite clear on what holy means, and am using “holy” perhaps a bit looser than its strict meaning )
What is a bit loony to debate, as we seem to be, as to whether there is something “Jewish” about Yiddish, that just isnt true with English.
Make no mistake, I prefer loony discussions, they are way more fun, than things we can “Agree to disagree on” like as to whether Vanilla or choclate is better, those arguments bore me. I much prefer arguments as to whether vanilla ice cream is white or whether Yiddish is more of a Jewish language than English