En la sección de «ejercicios» de Introduction to phonetics, Christiane Bolton and Margaret Seidlholfer, Oxford university press, 1998; se lee el siguiente epígrafe intimidatorio:
«Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim: and the men of Gilead smote Ephraim, because they said, Ye Gileadites are fugitives of Ephraim among the Ephraimites, and among the Manassites. And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites: and it was so, that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said, Let me go over; that the men of Gilead said unto him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay; Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.»
«Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim: and the men of Gilead smote Ephraim, because they said, Ye Gileadites are fugitives of Ephraim among the Ephraimites, and among the Manassites. And the Gileadites took the passages of Jordan before the Ephraimites: and it was so, that when those Ephraimites which were escaped said, Let me go over; that the men of Gilead said unto him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay; Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.»
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En uno de sus monólogos de Stand Up, S. Wainraich propone que para identificar la llegada del orgasmo femenino se acuerde una palabra contraseña. Él propuso "idiosincrasia", pero yo, después de leer esto, corro a decirle que la reemplace por "shibboleth".
Slain for mispronouncing? Is that possible? Yo haría lo mismo...
(Entre nos, yo pronuncié Ciboulette. será ese alma gourmet que cargo...)
Charlotte, Yo creo que para enmendar algunos vicios gramaticales como "si tendría" o "digo de que" o el ubicuo relativo "donde"; la muerte personal no es suficiente amenaza. Habría que castigar al infractor hasta la 7ma generación como mínimo para disuadirlo.
Y por pronunciar "Ciboulette" se añade anacrónicamente a la lista de muertos junto al río Jordán. Total 42.001.
Matias:
¿Y si pronuncia "Sibboleth" será un orgamos fingido?
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