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From: meth@csd2.UUCP (Asher Meth)
Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish
Subject: Re: Stop the anglo-saxon hebrew!!
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Date: Tue, 26-Mar-85 18:47:00 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 26 18:47:00 1985
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Bill Peter writes :

>Most Ashkenzaim in the world have adopted the correct Sephardic
>pronounciation of Hebrew, and it is used everywhere in the
>world except in the United States, and some places in England.
>I hope that some of the orthodox Jews on this net would stop
>separating themselves from the rest of the Jewish world, and
>start using the correct pronounciations.

As Artie Johnson used to say : very eeeeeeeeeeeeenteresting !

Most Ahkenazim I know have adopted an incorrect pronunciation. It is a weird
concoction of Ashkenozis, Sepharadit, and Americanish. I once heard it dubbed
"Ashke-Sphard".

By the way, what is the real "correct pronunciation" ? Do you really know ?

Would you be ready to swallow the following - they say that the closest thing
to the real correct pronunciation is that of the Teimanim - Yemenite Jews.
And guess who on this net writes in that (or a very similar) dialect - that's
right folks, 'Yakim Martillo. How about that.

The only problem I have with his dialect is the spelling (which is also
probably firmly based in some rules of transliteration that I don't know).

Bill, when I speak Ivrit to someone, I speak Sepharadit (yes, that is the
correct Sepharadit pronunciation of that word). When I learn, I usually speak
Ashkenozis (or, if you wish, Ashkenazit); unless my chavrusah (chavruta, for
you) is a Sepharadi, in which case, I move between the two, as my mood
dictates.


         asher meth

p.s. i've told israelis on ocassion that my name is a-sher (accent on the
'sher' and not on the 'a'). most people know me as osher or asher (accent on
the 'o' or 'a').