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overblown. there is no need in vowels beyond first couple of classes of elementary school and first couple of months when you learn hebrew as Nth language. the
by tguvot 10mo ago
overblown. there is no need in vowels beyond first couple of classes of elementary school and first couple of months when you learn hebrew as Nth language.
the rest of complaints can be equally applied to any given language i guess.
- nephihaha 10mo agoA considerable number of Israeli citizens arrive in adulthood, maybe with bar mitzvah level Hebrew and sometimes not even that.
- tguvot 10mo agoi know. its applicable to them as well. hebrew is learned in ulpans with teachers that speak only hebrew. vowels (nikud) will be used only for first month or two when people figure out basics of the language. given the way that hebrew structured, it's trivial to figure out words even if you don't know them. the really hard problem is borrowed words that are written without nikud. for example something like: _nvrst .
- nephihaha 10mo agoFor what it's worth, I do think English is horrific when it comes to spelling too, but what is effectively happening with both English and Hebrew words is that people are often memorising the whole word as a symbol rather than as a set of units.