blogspreading

[erratio]

Hmph, seems like all the cool people have their blogs over at blogger. The final straw came when I just tried to reply to someone's post about linguistics and got barred off because I don't have a blogger account :(

Should I just take my livejournal name and port it over? Should I come up with some new and fascinating moniker? At any rate, I'd better get to it quickly before the post that I want to reply to becomes obsolete

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Hebrew Linguistics

[(Anonymous)]

Hi Jen,

Luckily, I also read your blog! I agree that blog domains are really quite chauvinist in that they'll only allow comments from people in the same domain (also in LiveJournal I'm limited to posting as "Anonymous"). The only reason I limited mine to people with a Blogger blog was to try to avoid getting spam comments.

Anyways, לגוף העניין ("to the body of the matter"?) I see what you're saying, but there are plenty of ways that modern Hebrew speakers use elision and other techniques to get around difficult-to-say words. For instance, in מההתחלה, the more modern alternative to מלכתחילה - modern Hebrew speakers elide the הs and even the "patach" before the "kamatz" so that it sounds like "me'a'txala". And would "mi'le'*h*at'xila" really be so bad?

Daniel