[Heb-NACO] vocalizing a word question

[Neil Manel Frau-Cortes]

Rules are rules, but I don't love it.

I am thinking on transliterations of foreign words such as דייוד

It clearly sounds "ey" not "ay" -- just as yud alone may indicate "eeh" or
"eh" sound


Neil

On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 4:31 PM, Yossi Galron <jgalron at gmail.com> wrote:

> Our rule is that it should be Dait  (two Yods are "ai")
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> Yossi
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> On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 4:28 PM, Gottschalk, Haim <hgot at loc.gov> wrote:
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>> Dear colleagues:
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>> How would you vocalize דייט? I could not the word in the dictionaries,
>> nor find it vocalized in worldcat, nor on the internet. The word is
>> pronounced as “date” as going out on a date. I have Romanized it as “deyit”.
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>> Thanks in advance.
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>> Haim
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