Comments on: Separated at Birth

By: Best of 2010: Top 10 Separated at Births : Israellycool

Best of 2010: Top 10 Separated at Births : Israellycool — Sat, 01 Jan 2011 17:41:12 +0000

[...] (1 vote): US Vice President Joe Biden and Israeli Opposition Leader Tzipi Livni (first posted March 9th)#7 (2 votes): Tie between:Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and the robot from Lost in [...]

By: Best of 2010: Top 10 Separated at Births (Poll) : Israellycool

Best of 2010: Top 10 Separated at Births (Poll) : Israellycool — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 15:45:26 +0000

[...] posted June 4th)US Vice President Joe Biden and Israeli Opposition Leader Tzipi Livni (first posted March 9th)Some child from an advertisement on the new and improved Jerusalem Post site, and a troll (first [...]

By: not impressed

not impressed — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 21:04:01 +0000

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.

By: mister

mister — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:27:53 +0000

lethal would be the comment

By: juvanya

juvanya — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:22:33 +0000

You have a weird definition of hot then. She looks like a hungover burnout.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:13:58 +0000

Uh…. yes. She is. Very, very much so.

She is incredibly hot!

By: juvanya

juvanya — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:51:51 +0000

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'.

By: Michael Zvi Krumbein

Michael Zvi Krumbein — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:53:00 +0000

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.)

By: juvanya

juvanya — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:43:16 +0000

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.

By: Michael Zvi Krumbein

Michael Zvi Krumbein — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 12:24:55 +0000

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.