SPN post? AGAIN?

[ryuutchi]

I'm having weird con-issues. About whether I want to go. But I'm going so I don't know why I'm worrying.

Comments

[natbudin]

There is no "ay" sound in Hebrew.

Is that true? If so, what's the correct pronunciation of (the second syllable of) Dayenu?

[ryuutchi]

Da-yeh-nu (דַּיֵּנוּ). When spoken quickly it slurs into the pronounciation we normally use, but the "y" that produces the "ai" is actually the beginning of a new syllable.

[natbudin]

Ah, I was actually talking about the SECOND syllable (yeh), which I've always heard pronounced like "yay" - as in "yay, I have a cookie." Or maybe I misunderstood what sound you were saying didn't exist in Hebrew?

[ryuutchi]

It's supposed to be pronounced "eh" as in "egg".

(If you look at this chart, the vowal under the yud in "dayenu" is the fourth vowel marker down-- the tzareh.)

[stephanometra]

They can't pronounce anything on our show, sadly. Their Latin accents kind of give me conniptions.

[ryuutchi]

Point.

I was sort of hoping at least they could get a single NAME right, though, even if they can't speak a paragraph in another language to save their lives.