1 SHAMASH.ORG /usr/www/wwwhc/listserv/archives/heblang June 2000
2 42 33_Re: Normativism vs. descriptivism13_Monica Devens17_mdevens@yahoo.com36_Fri, 9 Jun 2000 08:41:00 -0700 (PDT)600_us-ascii My biggest problem with the changes in Israeli Hebrew is keeping up with them! As someone who teaches the language but hasn't been able to spend much extended time in Israel for many years, I'm painfully aware how out of date my "lingo" is.<br><br>Let's not get too carried away with the "glory of our fathers," please. I'm as much a "hovevet `ivrit" as the next person, but while it is certainly true that the phonetic system of Israeli Hebrew was adapted to the habits of the largely European-language-speaking immigrants of the yishuv, let's not pretend that the proto-Semitic sound [...]