Re: Jewish English: Hebonics

[ichudov@algebra.com (Igor Chudov @ home)]

See my extensive research on Sovonics also.

(look up article titled "Sovonics is equallanguage...", posted to
soc.culture.russian.moderated).

igor

NATHAN MALLAMACE wrote:
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> http://pages.prodigy.com/VT/  look for the most updated link there...
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> If you have already read this, I suggest you PRINT IT this time and 
> delete it. If you HAVEN'T READ IT YET. Make a copy and post it on 
> some other mailing list. Read on... Wyane.
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> >>Jewish English or "Hebonics"
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> >>The Encino School Board has declared Jewish English a second 
> language.
> >>Backers of the move say the district is the first in the nation to
> >>recognize Hebonics as the language of many of American Jews.  Here 
> are
> >>some descriptions of the characteristics of the language, and 
> samples
> >>of phrases in standard English and Jewish English.
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> >>Samples of Pronunciation Characteristics
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> >>Jewish English or "Hebonics" hardens consonants at the ends of 
> words.
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> >>Thus, "hand" becomes "handt."
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> >>The letter "W" is always pronounced as if it were a "V".  Thus
> >>"walking" becomes "valking"
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> >>"R" sounds are transformed to a guttural utterance that is 
> virtually
> >>impossible to spell in English.  It is "ghraining", "algheady"
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> >>Samples of Idiomatic Characteristics:
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> >>Questions are always answered with questions:
> >>   Question: "How do you feel?"
> >>   Hebonics response: "How should I feel?"
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> >>The subject is often placed at the end of a sentence after a 
> pronoun
> >>has been used at the beginning:  "She dances beautifully, that girl.
> "
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> >>The sarcastic repetition of words by adding "sh" to the front is 
> used
> >>for emphasis.
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> >>  mountains becomes "shmountains"
> >>  turtle becomes "shmurtle"
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> >>Sample Usage Comparisons:
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> >> Standard English Phrase             Hebonics Phrase
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> >> "He walks slow"        -      "Like a fly in the ointment he 
> walks"
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> >> "You're sexy"          -      (unknown concept)
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> >>"Sorry, I do not know   -      "What do I look like, a clock?"
> >> the time"
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> >> "I hope things turn    -      "You should BE so lucky"
> >> out for the best"
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> >>"Anything can happen"    -     "It is never so bad, it can't get 
> worse"
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> Interesting?
> Sorry, I wasn't the one who wrote this.. It's just interesting to me.
> 
> Nathan
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	- Igor.