Creative Yiddish Spoken

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/18/opinion/creative-yiddish-spoken.html

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To the Editor:

Re “How Do You Say ‘Email’ in Yiddish? Dictionary Keeps Up With the Times” (Arts pages, Oct. 5):

Your article made me hark back to the time my mother’s Yiddish class was discussing plans for Thanksgiving.

Not knowing how to say my husband and I were vegetarians, my mother created the Yiddish sentence, “My children eat grass!”

MARY ANNE COHEN

Brooklyn