Re: CHAT: "Steg" (was: Re: boustrophedon and conculture of Re: yet another romance)

On Thu, 6 Jan 2000 16:46:55 -0000 And Rosta <a.rosta@...> writes:
> This is the most flattering, though one or two of the others should
> also
> serve, should you decide upon a career as a rapper. On the other
> hand, they
> would, I speculatively caution, constrain you, should it be a career
> as a
> rabbi that you decide upon, to synagogues of only the most liberal
> of
> leanings.
> --And.
.

Actually, a few times i've considered legally (or at least usagely)
changing my name from my English name to my Hebrew name, Tzvi-hersh.
Tzvi or maybe ['tsIvi] (with /I/ = barred-i) for short.  But i decided
that it would be too much of a hassle, and people who aren't used to
intial /ts/ would have too hard of a time trying to pronounce it, let
alone spell it!  And "Stephen" is already hard enough to get people to
spell correctly.  The way i write Tzvi-hersh isn't even a valid spelling!
 When my parents named me, they spelled the _hersh_ part with a 3ayin,
representing Yiddish /e/, instead of a yud, for /i/.  Not that it really
matters, since Americans usually pronounce Hersh/Hirsh/Hirsch just like
"heard" with a /S/ instead of /d/, so the exact vowel doesn't matter.

And anyway, i already decided that if i do anything musical, it would be
to form a band called Livyata'n (acute over that A).  :-)


-Stephen (Steg...*nothing* involving horses!)
 "survival is insufficient."