Re: Hebrew, etc. [was: Multi-lingos

At 10:36 22.8.2000 -0400, Steg Belsky wrote:
>And then of course, there's the "Steghian Accent" as someone called it
>here, which sounds Ashkenazic to most Sefardim, and Sefardic to most
>Ashkenazim, and only Judaic Studies professors from Cornell can figure
>out what's really going on :-) .
Like the pronunciation of Pehlevi I learnt -- totally incomprehensible to
Farsi speakers, even words like _jahaan_ "world" which supposedly are the
same (tho spelled {g@h@n} in Aramao-Pehlevi and {jh@n} in Arabo-Farsi.  My
teachers tenedd to initial stress if the last syllable isn't long, while
Farsis tend to final stress whatever.

/Dostasp