Re: Meandering Jerri Type Post

In article <yX3Nj.15955$vz2.8867@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
"Annie" <annie@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> spake thusly:

> Do you know that some company is actually selling salt water this
> year? Because boiling water and adding salt is too difficult?

Wow.  We don't usually even boil it -- it dissolves well enough when
cold.

> Both Morty and I wrote those Hebrew and Yiddish words phonetically 
> and there must be several different ways to spell them (hence the 
> Hanukkah/Chanukah/Chanuka/Hanukah 'controversy')

[snip]

Indeed.  Apparently, there actually is an "official" standard (ISO
259) for transliteration, but it's a mess, so most people just wing
it.  Add in regional accents (ashkenazi[1], sephardi[2], taymani[3],
etc.), and Hebrew letters that have no obvious English equivalent
(e.g. khess, khaf, tzadi, maybe 'ayin) and you have a worse mess.

- Morty


[1] ashkenazi: used as a generic term for Jew of recent European
    Jewish descent, although technically it means German Jew.

[2] sephardi: used as a generic term for Jew of recent Middle Eastern
    Jewish descent, although technically it means Spanish Jew.

[3] taymani: Jew of recent Yemenite Jewish descent.