Shibboleth

6 pointsposted a year ago
by redbell

4 Comments

082349872349872

a year 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

a year ago

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

hooverd

a year ago

Also an unpleasant piece of software.

bigfatkitten

a year ago

Seemingly loved by universities, and nobody else.