Re: Hebrew and Conlangs
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, February 28, 2003, 3:10 |
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On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 15:42:38 +0200 "Isaac A. Penzev" <isaacp@...>
writes:
> Marginal note: an Israeli friend of mine tells, that in his
> grandpa's days
> (under the British mandate) one could easily be smashed into face
> for
> speaking Yiddish in the Land, and while the person was being beaten,
> he was
> told: "Y'hudi, daber 3ivrit!" (Jew, speak Ivrit!). No comments.
> Yitzik
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"3ivrit" with a /3/ayin? Really? That's sort of unexpected... i was
under the impression that aside from Ben-Yehuda himself and his family,
no one else was really interested in learning how to pronounce sounds
their accents had lost.
-Stephen (Steg)
"aroo."
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