http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/18/opinion/creative-yiddish-spoken.html 2016-10-17 22:41:28 Creative Yiddish Spoken A reader tells of her mother’s inventive rendering of “vegetarian.” === To the Editor: Re “ 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