As de bubbe volt gehat beytsim, volt zi gevain mayn zaidah.
What a strange thing to say. Who came up with that? In my lifetime it was cleaned up to be, "if my grandmother had wheels she'd be a trolley car" but that was clearly a relatively modern update. So there's these people living in Eastern or Central Europe, isolated from other communities, practically living in the Bronze Age, and this is how they talk to each other? Can you imagine Teviah from Fiddler on the Roof saying that? To whom would he say it? I certainly understand the circumstances when a person would want to express the sentiment. You know, you're in a meeting and the whole conversation has veered off into the future perfect subjunctive: if the xyz group were to decide to encrypt the abc message using the ijk code... But still, is that really what you'd say?
