Re: New Facebook Application: My Hebrew Name

In article <5n1lkmFfm0t4U1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Harlan Messinger <hmessinger.removethis@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Peter T. Daniels wrote:
On Oct 9, 11:06 am, Harlan Messinger
<hmessinger.removet...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
jrichman wrote:
Hi Everyone!
Today I launched a new Facebook application called:
My Hebrew Name
The application lets you lookup your Hebrew name and
display it (in Hebrew with nikud and an English transliteration)
on your Facebook profile.
Why with nikudot, which are not ordinarily used?

Why not?

Their most usual use these days is precisely in personal names, whose
pronunciation might not be obvious from their spelling.

Do you mean that in texts that aren't pointed, publishers do add them to
proper names wherever they appear? So in a Ma'ariv article, George
Bush's name appears with nikudot even though the surrounding text lacks
them?

I have seen some material in Israeli Hebrew, and nikudoth
are used where confusion can arise, as in foreign names.

Bock and Buck are both last names in English, and an Israeli
could hardly know which is supposed to be the case without
the use of nikudoth.
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