spellbound
1- yated neeman this week has a front page article about "Binyomin Netanyahu," I wonder if other Israelis of whose politics they approve less merit similar ashkenazation.
2- the store where I bought cold medicine this morning had a section for "Incontinents."
this post is filed under the category: pedantic about grammar
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"Incontinents" makes sense if the other aisles were labeled "People with Headaches," "Feverish People," "People with Small Papercuts," etc.
Somehow I think if they referred to Shimon Peres as "Shimon Persky" it would not be taken as approval.
shmuli,
1- i don't know what they tell you in lawyer-school, but please refrain from posting in the passive voice on this blog ;)
2- anyway, assuming you meant that i would be the one doing such "taking." i will respond:
a- i don't think that mistake is analogous, but
b- assuming there was an analogous switch, i might suspect that it was equally political.
c-of course, there is the problem of terrible copediting at most jewish newspapers, which casts doubt on the intentionality of any spellings. However, that said, I said what I did because I remember* an article (though I forget in which of the frum papers. about shemtiah, i think) that refered to "Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook" and "HoRav(insert name of charedi person - I forget the details)."
*fine, so by remember i mean forget most of the details, but you get the point...
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