Because it made me laugh...
[kif kEf]
Keef-Kef
AKA: Kit-Kat
posted by gwistik at Monday, July 03, 2006
Monday, July 03, 2006
[kif kEf]
Keef-Kef
AKA: Kit-Kat
[kif kEf]
Keef-Kef
AKA: Kit-Kat
[kif kEf]
Keef-Kef
AKA: Kit-Kat
Shalom from Shmu'el in Israel!
posted by gwistik at Monday, July 03, 2006
2 Comments:
umm...O.R.V.! Bulletholes!
actually - because you care, they're called niqqud.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niqqud
the hebrew language doesn't really have vowels like we do. there are a few letters which have vowel like qualities (yud, heh, vav) but the Masoretes added a system of diacritical marks to represent vowels. without those dots, unless you were familiar with how those words were conventionally pronounced, you could read them as KF-KF which allows for kef, kof, keef, kaf, kuf...you get the point.
so yes, in a nutshell, israelis use their words for target practice.
becareful what you wish for...
ask a linguistic question and you just might get a thesis in return! : )
I was expecting a 500 word essay. But I guess that'll do. Bulletholes reflect the culture, so they've managed to tangle it into the language.
>>Es tut mir leid, habe meine Passwort vergessen...muss leider als Anoymous einladen :) Ah-ber.. du weisst wer's ist direkt vom Thema.
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