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From: wkp@lanl.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.religion.jewish
Subject: Stop the anglo-saxon hebrew!!
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Date: Tue, 26-Mar-85 14:22:40 EST
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I have unfortunately become accustomed to American pigeon Hebrew
such as "shabbes" for shabbat, "yontif" for yom tov, etc., but when
a recent posting starts using terms like "ha'maisim" for "ha'metim",
it's time to stop the language degradation.

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.

I'm only interested in being able to understand your Hebrew
transliterations without having to pretend I live in Williamsburg.
--

bill peter