I heard Yiddish when my father's family came to the house, which was as seldom as my mother could arrange it. Joseph H. Greenberg More Quotes by Joseph H. Greenberg More Quotes From Joseph H. Greenberg A speaker is like a lousy auto mechanic: Every time he fixes something in the language, he screws up something else. Joseph H. Greenberg mechanic screw-ups language The ultimate goal is a comprehensive classification of what is very likely a single language family. The implications of such a classification for the origin and history of our species would, of course, be very great. Joseph H. Greenberg classification language goal