Shibboleth

6 pointsposted 11 hours ago
by redbell

3 Comments

082349872349872

9 hours ago

compare https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotive_conjugation

  I am accommodating
  You are using shibboleths
  They are dog whistling
EDIT: reflecting on שׁ‎ not being a difficult sound for english speakers, I'd thought כ was pronounced differently to ח‎, but a cursory search reveals there are many communities where they're homophonous.

names_are_hard

5 hours ago

כ differing from ח can be a contemporary shibboleth among contemporary Hebrew speakers, perhaps.

hooverd

9 hours ago

Also an unpleasant piece of software.