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He never wrote or published anything in Yiddish, and he seemed to have used as aids in translating the Guide Alexander Harkavy's Yiddish-English Dictionary and Uriel Weinreich's Modern English-Yiddish Yiddish-English Dictionary . Needless to say, translation by dictionary is the crudest and, if one may say, the cruelest form of translation.
[Undoubtedly, Uriel Weinreich would have offered the same remark himself, as his Languages in Contact (1953) made the point many times over.
According to the great Yiddish linguist Max Weinreich, Jews appropriated the word nebbich from their Slavic neighbors in the 11 th century.
Uriel Weinreich's dictionary gives “talking nonsense.”
(Uriel Weinreich's Yiddish-English Dictionary , YIVO, New York, 1968)