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Happy Hannukah!
Edgy DC Dec 01 2010 10:12 AM |
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soupcan Dec 01 2010 10:21 AM Re: Happy Hannukah! |
Bullshit.
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metirish Dec 01 2010 10:24 AM Re: Happy Hannukah! |
WOW.....fuck you Dave Bry ...asshole....
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DocTee Dec 01 2010 10:33 AM Re: Happy Hannukah! |
That's insulting on a lot of levels. And not the least bit funny.
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John Cougar Lunchbucket Dec 01 2010 10:36 AM Re: Happy Hannukah! |
Hipster Douchebag Snark. We can't get enough of it.
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Edgy DC Dec 01 2010 10:45 AM Re: Happy Hannukah! |
Hey, um, happy Festival of Lights anyway! I'm just the... ow! messeng... OW! SHIT! the messenger!
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MFS62 Dec 01 2010 05:33 PM Re: Happy Hannukah! |
That article was an absolute insult.
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Edgy DC Dec 01 2010 05:46 PM Re: Happy Hannukah! |
Yes, and more importantly, enjoy the festival. And if competition made a major holiday out of a minor one, good.
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Kong76 Dec 01 2010 06:03 PM Re: Happy Hannukah! |
I think they forgot to put the menora out at work. I usually put on
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themetfairy Dec 01 2010 06:26 PM Re: Happy Hannukah! |
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I don't know why they're closed, but it's not for Chanukah. This is a holiday of minor religious importance; not even the Orthodox take off for it.
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themetfairy Dec 01 2010 06:29 PM Re: Happy Hannukah! |
Happy Chanukah!
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Kong76 Dec 02 2010 08:57 AM Re: Happy Hannukah! |
The CVS is indeed open, they didn't fix the computer so that
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G-Fafif Dec 02 2010 09:35 AM Re: Happy Hannukah! |
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Spelling is my favorite part of the holiday, per Time.
I'm a Chanukah man myself, but to each chis or cher own. I've also always been a little dim on why the date darts all over December every year. Now I get it (boy was I not paying attention in Hebrew school).
I knew from Kislev 25th, but I never knew why there was no discernible pattern. The way a year varies from 353 to 385 days...perhaps that's what my mother meant when she referred to events with a squishy start time as beginning on a "Jewish half-hour".
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Edgy DC Dec 02 2010 09:53 AM Re: Happy Hannukah! |
You know, since so many of the Hebrew, Yiddish, and Arabic words containing that sound are adrift in a sea of multiple unofficial English phonetic spellings, maybe the MLA or somebody should pursue the quesiton at a conference of the best way ot consistent represent that sound. I nominate ckh.
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The Second Spitter Dec 06 2010 02:22 AM Re: Happy Hannukah! |
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The transliteration of the Hebrew letter, heth or ("?"), to the Latin letter "aitch" or ("h") is not a good one. The pronunciation of heth is a derivative of the Greek letter chai or "?", a nod to its use by Ashkenazi Jews in Ancient Greece, and is very different from the Latin or Arabic equivalent. (In the Middle East, particularly in the Israel/Palestine region, the pronunciation of this letter is the giveaway as to your identity.) The sound of heth is a voiceless velar fricative (like trying to pronounce "aitch" while gargling) which is more pronounced in the Hebrew language, whereas aitch is a much softer sound. "Ch" is definitely the correct transliteraton. The problem is that in English "ch" carries a different connotation. And the fact English speakers have trouble reproducing the voiceless velar fricative sound. Incidentally (or coincidentally) the word "Christmas" should actually be pronounced the same way -- derived from ??????? (the Greek word for Christ) uses "?" which is pronounced the same as "?". Except the English language pronunciation is derived from German.
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The Second Spitter Dec 06 2010 03:05 AM Re: Happy Hannukah! |
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Or Magnetos even.
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Edgy DC Dec 06 2010 07:03 AM Re: Happy Hannukah! |
You know, the first time my brother insisted I sit through an episode of 24, a teenage Muslim terrorist named Ahmed refused to listen to the appeals of his friend, saying, "You don't even know how to pronounce my NAME!" Seems his ignorant white teen buddy was doing excactly as described above, saying "AAH-med," instead of "AHCK-med."
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themetfairy Dec 06 2010 05:28 PM Re: Happy Hannukah! |
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themetfairy Dec 07 2010 07:29 AM Re: Happy Hannukah! |
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themetfairy Dec 08 2010 04:37 PM Re: Happy Hannukah! |
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