Re: Various chatter (short messages all in one pop....)

On Thu, 27 Apr 2000 17:29:01 -0700 Barry Garcia
<Barry_Garcia@...> writes:
> I always got a kick out of it whenever he would compare words from
> unrelated language families and come up with false relationships. I
> so
> wanted to dispute it, but i liked the class too much to do that ;)
> (I had
> a biology teacher in HS get peeved at me because I would correct her
> false information in front of the class)
-

I had an Israeli (or maybe Palestinian...you know, born pre-1948?)
teacher in highschool who spent almost an entire period spouting bad
linguistics in order to show how Ashkenázis is Hebrew spoken bad, and
that Yisr'eilít is so much better.  I tried to fix his theories, but he
wouldn't let anyone dispute him.  Ohwell, at least i spent the next month
or so with a big sign on my looseleaf that said _lo' kavod
lileshon-haqodesh la`asot mimena mifletzet shel frankenstein!_ ("it is
not respectful to the language of holiness to turn it into a frankenstein
monster!").  on the bottom i had a little caption that went something
like _va`ad lehaganat hamivta' habazuy - lehitqadmut ha`ivrit hattiv`it_
("council for the defense of the despised accent - for the promotion of
natural hebrew")  :-) .
These Israelis can sometimes take their rejection of all things
"galusdik" a little too far...

((rantmode off))

-Stephen (Steg)
 "sleep, like a fog, blew over him."  ~  _gilgamesh_

 ASHKENAZ POWER!  DOWN WITH ISRAELI LINGUICISM!