I missed part of the original thread and with all the work I've got, just dived in with what was on my mind. :)
At 02:33 PM 6/6/02, you wrote: >Oy. > >I make a joke, and Mikey D turns it into a language >lesson. > ><sigh> >(<grin>) > >-Ben > >> Unless your Ashkinazi who has not thrown out the extra sound for the letter >> Tav/Sav. We use the term Bris which never confuses the English. :) >> (Some letters in Hebrew have more than one sound. Some of these extra sounds >> have been 'tossed out' by different Jewish communities. I'm totally against >> tossing sounds out, but its politics now). >> >> At 01:52 PM 6/6/02, you wrote: >> >OK, so the contingent to the east of the pond are >> >British, Brit for short. >> > >> >But "Brit" means "covenant" in Hebrew. >> >And the covenant means >> ><snip> >> ></snip> >> > >> >And >> ><snip> >> ></snip> >> >isn't a British tradition. >> > >> >Oh, I'm *so* confused ... >> ><grin> >> > >> >-Ben >> > >> > >> > ______________________________________________________________________ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
