Re: You meet the oddest people on the Internet

Merhaba!

Doug Dee wrote:

"In a message dated 3/13/2004 10:28:18 AM Eastern Standard Time,
paul-bennett@NC.RR.COM writes:

">I just got called an anti-Semite for pointing out the difference in German
>between the ich-laut /C/ and ach-laut /x/, and that they're not both /x/.
">Dan/Steg/Yitzik/anyone: WTF?

">Seriously. How in the hell was that anti-Semitic?

Talk about crazy people... that's the most retarded thing I've ever heard.
Or at least, it's up there on my list. Another retarded comment (well,
implication) of an author of an article in the magazine "US News and World
Report" last year about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was that if you
disagreed with the Israeli gov't's policies, you were anti-Semitic!!

"I have no idea, so I'll engage in groundless speculation:

"I'm told that in Yiddish there is no /C/ vs /x/ distinction, it's always
/x/. Perhaps someone reasoned as follows:

"You say that German (correctly pronounced) distinguishes these two sounds.
Yiddish doesn't.
Therefore your claim is that Yiddish is mispronounced German.
Therefore your claim is that Yiddish is an inferior language.
Therefore you're an anti-Semite.

"I don't believe it either, but it's a theory."

That's one of the stupidest things I've ever heard. I read that Hebrew is
less conservative than standard Arabic (it elides some vowels etc.), which
means that Hebrew is inferior to standard Arabic??!! Reminds me of what's
written in the article about anti-Sanskritism discussed in a thread in
December...

--Trebor