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Re: new Klingon spelling

From:Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
Date:Monday, January 5, 2004, 22:31
On Sunday, January 4, 2004, at 03:18  PM, Mark J. Reed wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 07:00:33PM -0500, John Cowan wrote: >> I was debating a hawk a few months back on this very subject: he >> claimed >> that the pron. [ajr&k] was a deliberate insult/dehumanization, like >> "Jap" in WWII. This is some evidence against that. > > Do you really *need* any evidence against that? It's just how many > pronounce the name in English. Is it also an insult/dehumanization > that > we say ['Izrejl=] (and other variants) instead of [jeSrAel] for the > name of a certain other country in that region? > -Mark
I'm actually worse than that :-P My English pronunciation is ['IzriL=] (which i thought was common, but i've been finding out lately is actually pretty idiosyncratic), even though i know quite well that they call themselves [jisRa'el]. -Stephen (Steg) "bleah."

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