mcmillan@eosp1.UUCP (Tobias D. Robison) (03/02/84)
Let's not be silly, and lets admit that Ashkenazim and Sephardim have many subgroups with wildly different ways of pronouncing Hebrew. Litvak and Galitzianer speech sounds staggeringly different because of vowel shifts. Some second generation Argentinians pronounce the weird Ashkenazic dipthongs (like "oi" for "o") as pure vowels ( "oh-ee" for "oi"). Yemenites pronounce a version of sephardic in which all dageshes affect the sounds of consonants. For example, Gimmel with Dagesh is pronounced more or less as an English soft G. There are also some amazing vowel shifts in comparison to other Sephardim. I would say that there doesn't begin to be a "right way". Much more importantly -- do you respect, or feel biased against other Jews who can't pronounce Hebrew your "right way"? Does their Hebrew sound ugly to you? - Toby Robison allegra!eosp1!robison decvax!ittvax!eosp1!robison princeton!eosp1!robison (NOTE! NOT McMillan; Robison.)