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Attn: Jews and Others: Your Secret Bumper Sticker is Here
McCain/Palin Hebrew ^ | Sept. 9, 2008 | Cinnamon Girl

Posted on 09/09/2008 9:40:50 AM PDT by Cinnamon Girl

Yesterday, Michael Medved spoke about conservatives being a little wary of having conservative bumper stickers on their cars or signs in their yards because the liberals are liable to attack. There was a car in my neighborhood that was completely keyed up because it had Bush bumper stickers on it. My car has been keyed. Some friends of mine who had conservative stickers on their van had the stickers completely scraped up by angry liberals. Another friend who lives across the street from a public school had the Bush lawn sign I gave them ripped up a few times.

So if you want to show your love, but would like to make it a little more difficult for liberal idiots to know if they need to attack or not, here are some McCain/Palin stickers and yard signs in Hebrew, using the black and white McCain design. These items are designed using the standard spellings in Israeli newspapers, unlike some of the other items for sale.

I've seen Obama bumper stickers in Hebrew around here, but no McCain stickers. Profits will be intended as contributions to the McCain/Palin Compliance Fund.


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: bumpersticker; election; gop; hebrew; hebrewsticker; mccain; mccainpalin; yardsign
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To: Cinnamon Girl; PhilDragoo; devolve; potlatch

bumpski !!


41 posted on 09/09/2008 10:23:26 PM PDT by MeekOneGOP (Obama, WHO is Bill Ayers and WHY are you still friends with him? Please RSVP asap!)
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To: river rat; devolve; Conspiracy Guy; Fiddlstix; y'all

LOLOLOL!

That’s a great story! hahahaaaa!


42 posted on 09/09/2008 10:26:47 PM PDT by MeekOneGOP (Obama, WHO is Bill Ayers and WHY are you still friends with him? Please RSVP asap!)
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To: Alouette

LOL!


43 posted on 09/09/2008 10:31:57 PM PDT by hope (Howard Wolfson: "She put a knife in him with a smile")
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To: Cinnamon Girl
Listening to JM in the AM now, and apparently someone sent Nachum Segal a McCain Hebrew bumper sticker. He reacted to the transliteration the same way I did.

ML/NJ

44 posted on 09/24/2008 4:38:00 AM PDT by ml/nj
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To: ml/nj

That’s great, ml/nj. Why don’t you take it up with the Israelis? That’s the way they print McCain and Palin in the papers. If it bothers you so much why don’t you make your own stickers for you and any other Americans who feel the Israelis didn’t translate it into Hebrew properly.


45 posted on 09/24/2008 6:38:32 AM PDT by Cinnamon Girl (Welcome home, former McCain haters and rageaholics!)
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To: Cinnamon Girl
Sorry to bother you. I just thought you'd be interested.

ML/NJ

46 posted on 09/24/2008 7:28:39 AM PDT by ml/nj
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To: Cinnamon Girl

If they keyed your car with that bumper sticker, would that be a hate crime?


47 posted on 09/24/2008 7:30:30 AM PDT by Mashood
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To: Cinnamon Girl

I am more than wary. I am afraid of having McCain sign. I live near DC and not far from my house there is a project housing for low income residents.


48 posted on 09/24/2008 7:40:45 AM PDT by Henderson
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To: Mashood

Yesterday, a guy in the lane next to me tried to spit on my car, but he missed, which I pointed out to him, before he sped away angrily.


49 posted on 09/24/2008 8:48:13 AM PDT by Cinnamon Girl (Welcome home, former McCain haters and rageaholics!)
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To: ml/nj
Transliterated Hebrew, without diacritics (the vowel marks, known in Hebrew as nekudot), is not that difficult. When desiging the logo, I took the spelling from the Israeli newspaper Yediot Achronot -- Haaretz, a leftist paper, is burying news of Palin. My transliteration is that which would be used in newspapers and unvowelized standard news media in Israel.

http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3605525,00.html has the following headline as an example:

?מה חושבת "שרה פיילין" על יהודים ואוכל קובני

The part in quoted Hebrew is, of course, "Sarah Palin".

Are you even familiar with how "ch" as in "Richard" or "G" as in "George" is customarily written in modern Hebrew?

Oh, and for what it's worth, I've been published by the Association for History and Computing for my work on personal name-matching algorithms. I've forgotten more about slicing and dicing names than you'll ever know.

Now get back under the bridge, troll.
50 posted on 10/05/2008 10:34:38 PM PDT by rantblogger
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To: rantblogger

ג'ו ביידן

קווין לטיפה

גווין אייפל

Let's have some fun and guess what those names are (from the same Yediot Achronot article I used for the headline, in my previous post)? They use the same convention for transliterating non-Hebrew names to Hebrew as I used. One of the advantages of the extra yuds and other letters and symbols, in a vowel-free printed Hebrew, is that the word is IMMEDIATELY identifiable as non-native and therefore can be more easily guessed based on context.

Note the double vav, the apostrophe, and the double yud.
51 posted on 10/05/2008 10:44:54 PM PDT by rantblogger
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To: rantblogger
Are you even familiar with how "ch" as in "Richard" or "G" as in "George" is customarily written in modern Hebrew? Oh, and for what it's worth, I've been published by the Association for History and Computing for my work on personal name-matching algorithms. I've forgotten more about slicing and dicing names than you'll ever know. Now get back under the bridge, troll.

WOW ! Published by Association for History and Computing! You must be nearly famous; but not too smart. Anyone who would suggest that I am a troll here obviously doesn't have a clue about searching the FR database. I've never seen your work, I guess because most of the transliterations I see are into Roman characters. I admit that when I am in Israel, like three weeks ago, I don't look at Hebrew newspapers and don't think much about transliterating English into Hebrew. I really don't give a ^%*+ about how to transliterate sounds that don't exist in Hebrew into Hebrew, nor do I think it relevant as concerns the names of the people running at the top of the Republican ticket.

ML/NJ

52 posted on 10/06/2008 6:19:30 AM PDT by ml/nj
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To: ml/nj
Ow. Boo hoo. You wounded me deeply with your not having heard of me. Have you ever seen the work of America's second most famous expert on linguistics? No doubt there are scores of scholarly fields whose experts you've never heard of. Scholars are rarely mentioned in People magazine or mainstream English-language newspapers. Fame isn't their goal. Fame is much easier to come by than scholarship. Stick to commenting on People and US magazine, where you might feel comfortable in your fame-seeking intellectual element.

Explain to us your emotional compulsion to pipe up concerning the issue of Hebrew bumper sticker design. Why not leave such matters to those who do read Hebrew newspapers and actually have experience with transliterating non-Hebrew words into Hebrew? Pity you wouldn't even pick up or notice the headlines of Israeli newspapers three weeks ago. You may want to consider returning so you might actually benefit from visiting the Holy Land. You certainly didn't get your money's worth.

Free Republic readers should conclude by taking your professed ignorance of modern Hebrew as an admission of your lack of qualifications on the matter.

"I don't look at Hebrew newspapers and don't think much about transliterating English into Hebrew."

Q.E.D.
53 posted on 10/06/2008 9:13:33 AM PDT by rantblogger
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To: rantblogger
Listen Sherlock! The sound in McCain is sort of like Cain. You know the brother of that guy Abel. Do you know what the Torah is? In mine, Cain is spelled kuf-yud-nun. There's no double yud. Go proffer your nonsense on DU.

ML/NJ

54 posted on 10/06/2008 9:42:29 AM PDT by ml/nj
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To: ml/nj
It's elementary, Holmes. The Hebrew you cite is pronounced ka-YEEN. Not KAYn. If you can't get THAT right, there's really not much hope for your ever understanding.

We aren't trying to transliterate to Hebrew accents where there aren't even sounds like the W in "Washington". Even the vowel tzereh (two horizontal dots beneath the letter) is more of an EH sound than an AY sound. Modern Hebrew INTENTIONALLY uses letters in non-Biblical ways to explicitly indicate a pronunciation foreign to Hebrew, as would be all American surnames.

The Hebrew for the first brothers isn't Cain and Abel but something that sounds more like ka-YEEN and heh-vel. No long A sound and no hard B sound in the name of the murdered brother. Using your ludicrous reasoning, if McCain's running mate was named Mabel and not Sarah, we should spell her name mem-vet-lamed, pronounced Mevel?

In addition to Yediot Achronot, Haaretz, often called Israel's paper of record, also agrees with my transliteration: http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/spages/1026817.html. In other words, my spellings are what Israelis all use.

The was making a contemporary political button that would be immediately understandable to readers of modern Hebrew circa 2008 (or 5769 if you like).

I've probably forgotten more Torah than you'll ever know. I'm not proud of having forgotten any of it. I am proud of my son-in-law who is presently learning at a kollel.

Given that I designed and created the Hebrew pro-McCain-Palin items, and will be donating all the profits to the McCain campaign, it underscores your inability to comprehend much of anything. I no more belong in DU than CinnamonGirl or any other Jewish Republican does.

Of course, you're welcome to try to convince yourself of my conservative bona fides by looking at my other designs. I don't put much faith in your firmly grasping reality, so you'll probably falsely accuse me of being a member of MoveOn, PETA or some other leftist tribe of loons.
55 posted on 10/06/2008 4:46:12 PM PDT by rantblogger
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To: Alouette

lol....here it is translated into ebonics

nahh oboma what ‘chew trippin foo’


56 posted on 10/06/2008 4:52:25 PM PDT by Drango (A liberal's compassion is limited only by the size of someone else's wallet.)
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To: rantblogger
Given that I designed and created the Hebrew pro-McCain-Palin items, and will be donating all the profits to the McCain campaign, it underscores your inability to comprehend much of anything. I no more belong in DU than CinnamonGirl or any other Jewish Republican does.

Oooh. So important.

I don't recall ever seeing any post from you EVER on any thread here at FR concerning Israel or anything else for that matter. Maybe there were a few but I guess I judged them so insignificant that I didn't notice. CinnamonGirl, whom you seem to be so fond of, will certainly tell you that I do not suffer fools gladly.

You annoy me. I did a search of your FR posts and mostly what I noticed is a whole bunch of links TO THINGS YOU ARE SELLING. I guess you didn't know that this is a violation of the rules here at FR. But now you do. I suggest you don't do it again. Understand, Pal?

ML/NJ

57 posted on 10/06/2008 5:37:56 PM PDT by ml/nj
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To: Cinnamon Girl

I just calculated my profits for the design and PayPal’ed them all to the McCain compliance fund a few moments ago.

I’ll donate more after the election if/when more sales come in.


58 posted on 10/27/2008 8:40:54 PM PDT by rantblogger
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To: rantblogger

Thanks for all your help.


59 posted on 10/27/2008 9:29:21 PM PDT by Cinnamon Girl ("We rocked the vote all right; those little b---s betrayed us again." Hunter S. Thompson)
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