r/Israel • u/MemeHedonism • 2d ago

Meme Happy Hanukkah

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u/thewearisomeMachine Israel/UK 2d ago

Works for English speakers too

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u/MemeHedonism 2d ago

Damn, they wish you guys that as well?

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u/Haunting_Birthday135 Anti-Axis Forces 2d ago

Wait until you hear that we call shrimp ‘shrimps’ here. All of that is an influence of the German-speaking Jews who lived in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and Haifa (mainly fled from the Nazis in the 1930s). They introduced the other Jews new terms that were adopted in German (such as die Schrimps) because English hasn’t penetrated the popular culture yet.

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u/thewearisomeMachine Israel/UK 2d ago

‘Shrimps’ is fine. Putting an extra syllable in ‘popcorn’ and ‘Lincoln’ is unacceptable.

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u/Cool-Courage-4681 2d ago

How else would you pronounce popcorn in Hebrew? 🤣

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u/thewearisomeMachine Israel/UK 2d ago

Without the extra syllable? WHY IS IT POPCOREN?

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u/Cool-Courage-4681 2d ago

Because of the way we speak Hebrew. The flow of the word makes the ר have a שווא נע. Pop-Koren flows a lot more naturally than pop-Korn.

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u/vegan437 1d ago

shrimp --> shrimps --> shrimpsim!

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u/Professional_Yam6433 USA 1d ago

Skramps even

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u/Ok-Construction-7740 21h ago

Do you mean. The templers who cam here during ottoman times

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u/Haunting_Birthday135 Anti-Axis Forces 20h ago

No. Jews from Berlin and Vienna who made aliyah a decade or so before the establishment of the state of israel, during the British mandate.

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u/Ok-Construction-7740 19h ago

Thanks for the clarification