----- Original Message -----
From: Josh Roth <Fuscian@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 6:09 AM
Subject: Re: Idiolects
> (skip)
>
> Means that you sound different (and more authentic, if they said it in a
nice
> way) than the average Hebrew speaker :-) There definitely are different
> "registers" of Hebrew for me. For example, in Hebrew class I pronounce my
r's
> uvularly, since the teacher's Israeli and I'm trying to have a good
Israeli
> accent. But if I'm reading something in synagogue I would never do
that...
> it's just not what's done there! Unless someone is Israeli or lived in
Israel
> for a long time, the normal thing is to use a distinctly American accent
> there, with an American 'r', though at least we distinguish /E/ from /e/.
The
> only time I pronounce pharyngeal anything is when I'm singing along to
> Yemenite music (as well as in Structure of Arabic class the other day,
when
> we had our phonetics lesson).
>
> Josh Roth
Absolutely agreed!!! I myself use different "registers" of Hebrew in
differents situations (which my wife finds confusing, though she is a
linguist too. So, if I recite a blessing in an Ashkenazi manner
[...b@,soir@"sExo...], she says: Amen, but stop hissing.) That's the life,
folks :-)))
Yitzik