Tonight is the first of 8. Good times shall be had by all.

12/11/2009 7:14:35 PM

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"SPIN THAT DREIDEL"

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12/11/2009 7:18:07 PM

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12/11/2009 7:21:31 PM

Wheres our Hebrew wolf?

Happy Chanukah!

12/11/2009 7:21:34 PM

Happy Chanukah all my Jewish friends out there!

12/11/2009 7:22:55 PM

12/11/2009 7:27:51 PM

Who else is lighting up tonight?


The menorah anyway...

12/11/2009 7:29:21 PM

I <3 jews

12/11/2009 7:50:12 PM

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12/11/2009 7:51:15 PM

12/11/2009 7:52:46 PM

Drink your gin and tonic-a

12/11/2009 8:06:25 PM

^^that's great

12/11/2009 8:26:42 PM

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12/11/2009 9:55:12 PM

2nd night

12/12/2009 5:53:39 PM

Anybody able to weigh in on the "Chanukah/Hanukkah" debate? I've always wondered why there were multiple accepted spellings, but didn't know if there was any cultural significance to either.

12/12/2009 9:42:25 PM

color colour
flavor flavour

god i feel like oep now

12/12/2009 9:43:20 PM

I mean...that's about American English vs. RP (or whatever it's called in writing). This is the same word, within the same culture. We bastardized English when we came across the pond; I just wonder whether there's a difference between the two spellings and whether it makes a difference which you use.

12/12/2009 9:44:39 PM

my thread is way cooler

12/12/2009 9:46:26 PM

Same reason there is matcha/maccha and azuki/adzuki, you're taking a word from a different language and different alphabet and trying to spell it phonetically.

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12/12/2009 9:49:03 PM

That makes a lot of sense. Which is the original--Chanukah? I would assume so given the presence of the "ch," which doesn't translate easily to English writing.

12/12/2009 9:51:15 PM

the sound represented by "CH" essentially does not exist in English

the letter "chet", which is the first letter in the Hebrew spelling, is pronounced differently in modern Hebrew than in classical Hebrew, and neither of those are representable in English

the letter 'kaf' is classical Hebrew, not modern - so adapting the classical Hebrew pronunciation leads to "Hanukkah" while the modern Hebrew pronunciation leads to "Chanukah"

12/12/2009 9:52:53 PM

linda is droppin some serious knowledge in this thread

12/12/2009 9:54:04 PM

Thank you! That answers a question I have been pondering for an embarrassingly long time.

I hope you win Old School mod just for that. You have my vote.

12/12/2009 9:54:10 PM

12/12/2009 9:56:11 PM

Cha-nu-kah Sa-may-ach

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12/12/2009 11:55:04 PM

haha hebrOWNED

Chag Urim Sameach

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12/13/2009 1:23:12 AM

^Do you have Heeb in you? Would you like one?

12/13/2009 3:42:14 PM

12/13/2009 3:54:50 PM

3rd Night

12/13/2009 6:36:28 PM

12/13/2009 6:41:47 PM

4th Night

12/14/2009 11:25:59 PM

5th night:

12/15/2009 10:26:13 PM

I wonder what i'll get myself for tomorrow..9rolly s9ks.

12/15/2009 10:27:34 PM

MERRY Christmas mother fuckers!

12/15/2009 10:31:59 PM

Its not Christmas yet, get that shit out of here

12/15/2009 10:33:02 PM

But yet tey've been playing Christmas music for a month now...where's the Chanukah music?

12/15/2009 10:34:05 PM