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daas_balabatim DavidWolkenfeld avigayiln I’m team halakha because YIVO and because “ch” already maps to a perfectly valid English phoneme. I was also team khevrusa until JoelAGoldstein made me aware that many people use ch = ח and kh = כ. This seems like a good idea bc they are different phonemes in many dialects.Permalink On twitter.com
Mood +8 🙂
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daas_balabatim DavidWolkenfeld avigayiln JoelAGoldstein That said, I would have made the opposite call. kh feels intuitively more guttural, and a c looks like a backwards כ. But I’m sure the Transliteration Overlords have their reasonsOn twitter.com