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It isn't even spelled correctly. The romanisation should be nekudatayim: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D7%A0%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%93%D7%AA%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9D https:/

It isn't even spelled correctly. The romanisation should be nekudatayim: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D7%A0%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%93%D7%AA%D7%99%D7%99%D7%9D https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D7%A0%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%93%D7%A...

pwdisswordfish9 4y ago
By whose authority?
- Jiro 4y ago
  The world's. There are not an unlimited number of acceptable methods for romanizing Hebrew.
  - compsciphd 4y ago
    the Israeli standard way of romanizing hebrew looks weird to any person whose first language is english. take the Israel city of Petach Tikvah. Assuming you know about the gutural h in hebrew, you know how to pronounce it correctly via that spelling. However, that's not the official transliteration. The official one is Petah Tiqwa. And unless you know that the w should be pronounced like a v, most israelis (perhaps not those of yemenite extraction) will look at you strangely. why transliterated weirdly? my understanding is that its meant to be able to go 1:1 programmatically back and forth between hebrew and english, so you end up with things that look weird to the english trained eye.
- latte 4y ago
  By who's authority should the word "who's" be spelled "whose" and not "who's"? In all seriousness, it's interesting to see how the live language is diverging from the rules. The dual ending "-ayim" is supposed to be used with the singular stem: nekuda(-t) - giving nekudatayim "two dots", and likewise shnatayim "two years", dakatayim "two minutes", etc. But in practice, speakers classify dual as plural and use the form with both plural and dual endings: nekudotayim, dakotayim
  - Adverblessly 4y ago
    To be fair, Hebrew does have an official regulatory institute in the (ironically named) Academy of the Hebrew language. But indeed 100% of modern Hebrew speakers will say "nekudotayim" and not "nekudatayim" and maybe eventually the academy will catch up with that and make it official (just like they somewhat recently did with socks :)).

pwdisswordfish9 4y ago

By whose authority?

Jiro 4y ago
The world's. There are not an unlimited number of acceptable methods for romanizing Hebrew.
- compsciphd 4y ago
  the Israeli standard way of romanizing hebrew looks weird to any person whose first language is english. take the Israel city of Petach Tikvah. Assuming you know about the gutural h in hebrew, you know how to pronounce it correctly via that spelling. However, that's not the official transliteration. The official one is Petah Tiqwa. And unless you know that the w should be pronounced like a v, most israelis (perhaps not those of yemenite extraction) will look at you strangely. why transliterated weirdly? my understanding is that its meant to be able to go 1:1 programmatically back and forth between hebrew and english, so you end up with things that look weird to the english trained eye.
latte 4y ago
By who's authority should the word "who's" be spelled "whose" and not "who's"? In all seriousness, it's interesting to see how the live language is diverging from the rules. The dual ending "-ayim" is supposed to be used with the singular stem: nekuda(-t) - giving nekudatayim "two dots", and likewise shnatayim "two years", dakatayim "two minutes", etc. But in practice, speakers classify dual as plural and use the form with both plural and dual endings: nekudotayim, dakotayim
- Adverblessly 4y ago
  To be fair, Hebrew does have an official regulatory institute in the (ironically named) Academy of the Hebrew language. But indeed 100% of modern Hebrew speakers will say "nekudotayim" and not "nekudatayim" and maybe eventually the academy will catch up with that and make it official (just like they somewhat recently did with socks :)).