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Re: Hebrew and Conlangs

From:Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
Date:Friday, February 28, 2003, 3:10
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
- "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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