Separated at Birth
Aussie Dave | Mar 09, 2010 | 23 comments
US Vice President and Israeli Opposition Leader Tzipi Livni – you be the judge.
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An Australian immigrant to Israel, Aussie Dave has been blogging since early 2003.Filed Under: Separated at Birth
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Look, I know they have no concept of business dress here, but you would think leader of the opposition….
How's that coffee coming?
She thinks she's hot.
She IS hot!!!
Uh…..no.
My rather left-wing sister doesn't like her much – she tells me, "and she spells her name wrong!". (My sister spells it Tsippy. She has managed a successful executive career with a name that can't be pronounced in English.)
It's ציפי TS I P I. So you're sister is wrong. Although really it should be spelled Tsipi, but the Tz for Tzadek has stuck. It can be pronounced in English, although English doesnt have the phoneme ͡ts — hopefully you can see the symbol. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceless_alveolar_a… so it should be pronounced in English as S—Sipi or maybe Zipi. However, English is known for its amazing adaptability and we are fully able to pronounce Tzipi/Tsipi mostly correct.
I actually just learned about this in my linguistics class. When a language brings in a word from elsewhere that doesnt have the same consonants, it has ways to compensate and replace them. Hawaiian, for example, replaces a lot of consonants like b, p, f, v, and others with k.
She doesn't use a Yud. That's the stupid "new full spelling", which I don't like using, because it looks like Hebrew never looked.
Actually, it shouldn't even have a vav, as it is this way in the Torah: צִפֹּרָה, but people tend to use one. (Thanks to Mechon-Mamre; couldn't find my Chumash this morning.)
Generally, the original name was Faiga or Feigel, which may not even mean the same thing.
(My parents were ahead of their time, and gave my sisters' Hebrew names even in English. My mother decided to spell my middle name with a Z istead of TS because she though it would be an interesting initial. I once worked for a contracting firm, and they took the middle initial out of the resume because they thought in would give a negatve subconcious impression! An A they would have put in.
Ah I was going off of Wikipedia, which must be the official "new Hebrew" as you said. Even so, it'd still be Tzipi.
Z might be cool if that was your nickname in school and wasnt derogatory.
I don't think you can define a spelling. Tsippy makes sense to me (there's a dot in the Peh, anyway). It's like the official spelling of a Chet being H, while everyone actually spells it CH. (You know, it's really X. That's how you get xmas, for example. I'm serious.)
Technically, especially in English, spelling is not really important, but I generally try to impose my own transliteration method. ee in beat is always i. etc… On the other hand, you could say that Tsippy is more Anglicized than Tzipi, which is more of a raw transliteration.
Xmas is that pretty much. It's more a contraction though, like Kbein or Jya. I've actuall been trying to start using the spelling Xanuka(h), but it does look awkward. I have not been able to assimilate x as a velar fricative 'kh'.
Uh…. yes. She is. Very, very much so.
She is incredibly hot!
You have a weird definition of hot then. She looks like a hungover burnout.
wow… they both have the same creepy good-old-boy-ish body language, and their faces actually look similar. Brilliant catch!!
And wow, I can see all the way up Livni's skirt. That's kind of disturbing. Though she does have nicer legs than I would have expected.
Well, not quite "all" the way up. She's not Britney Spears, thank goodness.
I see the similarity in the type of smile but that's it for me.
Quite amazing from forehead to chin. Very good match up. Does Livni have a reputation for awkward statements?
And now for my own recent "separated at birth" discovery, Israeli concert cellist Amit Peled and Sylvester Stallone. Who would think that Rocky could play Beethoven with such sensitivity?
There is no argument for me. Tzipi is so hot! Biden, not so much for me.
Exactly! And personally, I think she has GREAT legs!
lethal would be the comment
She's got bigger hands and forearms and a much thicker neck! His hair is much more carefully coiffed and he's wearing more makeup.
If I were into gay looking old men or lesbian women this would have been more fun.
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