User:Largoplazo/Yiddish symbols

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I'm considering the merits of this article.

It's almost original research. It appears to come entirely from a Wall Street Journal article, the one cited as a source, in which the writer seems to be stretching to classify things as "Yiddish symbols". Much of it is equivalent to saying the doe is an English symbol because children are often taught the song that begins "Doe, a deer, a female deer" from The Sound of Music; or that the kangaroo is an English symbol because it's symbolic of Australia and Australians mostly speak English.

A single business's (Duolingo's) attempt to fill a gap it feels it needs to fill for its Yiddish lessons also doesn't really rise to the level of "Yiddish symbols". Further, some of these are at best Jewish symbols or Ashkenazic symbols and have no special association with the Yiddish language other than by inference through Judaism or Ashkenazic culture.

Finally, the topic doesn't appear to be notable, as the WSJ article is the only source that Google returns for "Yiddish symbols" where the word "symbols" isn't being used as a synonym for "letters", as in the letters of the Yiddish alphabet.