How do you pronounce this word?

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matedog wrote:
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eumaas wrote:Schwa comes from sheva, right?
According to my extensive Wikipedia skimming, yes.
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matedog wrote:
Flex wrote:
eumaas wrote:Schwa comes from sheva, right?
According to my extensive Wikipedia skimming, yes.
Wow, my uncle was right, all non-Christian religions are the same.
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Sheva is pronounced Shay-va and means seven. It is not pronounced Sheeva and mean a diety. GDH!!!!
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JennyB wrote:Sheva is pronounced Shay-va and means seven. It is not pronounced Sheeva and mean a diety. GDH!!!!
Actually, that's שֶׁבַע--we're talking about שְׁוָא, which is a niqqud vowel.
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eumaas wrote:
JennyB wrote:Sheva is pronounced Shay-va and means seven. It is not pronounced Sheeva and mean a diety. GDH!!!!
Actually, that's שֶׁבַע--we're talking about שְׁוָא, which is a niqqud vowel.
Yeah, but Hoy was talking about Sheva and not Shwa.
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JennyB wrote:
eumaas wrote:
JennyB wrote:Sheva is pronounced Shay-va and means seven. It is not pronounced Sheeva and mean a diety. GDH!!!!
Actually, that's שֶׁבַע--we're talking about שְׁוָא, which is a niqqud vowel.
Yeah, but Hoy was talking about Sheva and not Shwa.
Look up--we were spelling it sheva.
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eumaas wrote:
JennyB wrote:
eumaas wrote:
JennyB wrote:Sheva is pronounced Shay-va and means seven. It is not pronounced Sheeva and mean a diety. GDH!!!!
Actually, that's שֶׁבַע--we're talking about שְׁוָא, which is a niqqud vowel.
Yeah, but Hoy was talking about Sheva and not Shwa.
Look up--we were spelling it sheva.
I don't read print Hebrew well...I'm much better with script.
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JennyB wrote:
eumaas wrote:
JennyB wrote:
eumaas wrote:
JennyB wrote:Sheva is pronounced Shay-va and means seven. It is not pronounced Sheeva and mean a diety. GDH!!!!
Actually, that's שֶׁבַע--we're talking about שְׁוָא, which is a niqqud vowel.
Yeah, but Hoy was talking about Sheva and not Shwa.
Look up--we were spelling it sheva.
I don't read print Hebrew well...I'm much better with script.
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JennyB wrote:
eumaas wrote:
JennyB wrote:
eumaas wrote:
JennyB wrote:Sheva is pronounced Shay-va and means seven. It is not pronounced Sheeva and mean a diety. GDH!!!!
Actually, that's שֶׁבַע--we're talking about שְׁוָא, which is a niqqud vowel.
Yeah, but Hoy was talking about Sheva and not Shwa.
Look up--we were spelling it sheva.
I don't read print Hebrew well...I'm much better with script.
I meant literally sheva as in Roman letters, not the Hebrew ones. We were discussing the origin of "schwa" in שְׁוָא which ends up getting Romanized "sheva" or "shewa" in etymological dictionaries. I'm saying Hoy is even more off-base as the first vowel in sheva (meaning the niqqud) is silent.
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eumaas wrote:
JennyB wrote:
eumaas wrote:
JennyB wrote:
eumaas wrote: Actually, that's שֶׁבַע--we're talking about שְׁוָא, which is a niqqud vowel.
Yeah, but Hoy was talking about Sheva and not Shwa.
Look up--we were spelling it sheva.
I don't read print Hebrew well...I'm much better with script.
I meant literally sheva as in Roman letters, not the Hebrew ones. We were discussing the origin of "schwa" in שְׁוָא which ends up getting Romanized "sheva" or "shewa" in etymological dictionaries. I'm saying Hoy is even more off-base as the first vowel in sheva (meaning the niqqud) is silent.
We could save time by making all of our signatures: "Hoy is wrong, and explaining it to him is not worth our time."
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Wolter wrote:
JennyB wrote:
eumaas wrote:
JennyB wrote:
eumaas wrote: Actually, that's שֶׁבַע--we're talking about שְׁוָא, which is a niqqud vowel.
Yeah, but Hoy was talking about Sheva and not Shwa.
Look up--we were spelling it sheva.
I don't read print Hebrew well...I'm much better with script.
Gene is a better Jew than you are.
He did murder Arafat with his bare hands. (That wasn't a secret, was it?)
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
Wolter wrote:
JennyB wrote:
eumaas wrote:
JennyB wrote: Yeah, but Hoy was talking about Sheva and not Shwa.
Look up--we were spelling it sheva.
I don't read print Hebrew well...I'm much better with script.
Gene is a better Jew than you are.
He did murder Arafat with his bare hands. (That wasn't a secret, was it?)
I was just trying to rearrange his pillows!
I feel that there is a fascistic element, for example, in the Rolling Stones . . .
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eumaas wrote:
Dr. Medulla wrote:
Wolter wrote:
JennyB wrote:
eumaas wrote: Look up--we were spelling it sheva.
I don't read print Hebrew well...I'm much better with script.
Gene is a better Jew than you are.
He did murder Arafat with his bare hands. (That wasn't a secret, was it?)
I was just trying to rearrange his pillows!
Straight out of the IDF Handbook …
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
eumaas wrote:
Dr. Medulla wrote:
Wolter wrote:
JennyB wrote: I don't read print Hebrew well...I'm much better with script.
Gene is a better Jew than you are.
He did murder Arafat with his bare hands. (That wasn't a secret, was it?)
I was just trying to rearrange his pillows!
Straight out of the IDF Handbook …
Please. You want eumaas to check for ID before murdering an old man in his sleep? Appeaser.
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Wolter wrote:
Dr. Medulla wrote:
eumaas wrote:
Dr. Medulla wrote:
Wolter wrote: Gene is a better Jew than you are.
He did murder Arafat with his bare hands. (That wasn't a secret, was it?)
I was just trying to rearrange his pillows!
Straight out of the IDF Handbook …
Please. You want eumaas to check for ID before murdering an old man in his sleep? Appeaser.
Checking first is the hallmark of the anti-Semite.
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JennyB wrote:
eumaas wrote:
JennyB wrote:
eumaas wrote:
JennyB wrote:Sheva is pronounced Shay-va and means seven. It is not pronounced Sheeva and mean a diety. GDH!!!!
Actually, that's שֶׁבַע--we're talking about שְׁוָא, which is a niqqud vowel.
Yeah, but Hoy was talking about Sheva and not Shwa.
Look up--we were spelling it sheva.
I don't read print Hebrew well...I'm much better with script.
How is your hindi though?
Look, you have to establish context for these things. And I maintain that unless you appreciate the Fall of Constantinople, the Great Fire of London, and Mickey Mantle's fatalist alcoholism, live Freddy makes no sense. If you want to half-ass it, fine, go call Simon Schama to do the appendix.

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