What is Linguistic Intolerance?


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A symptom of bigotryin which a bigotinsists that the spelling, grammar, or pronunciation of other languages, cultures, or subcultures are inferior, or simply wrong.

Some linguistically intolerant Jews and Muslims, such as the late Sheikh Ahmed Deedat complain about what they call, the J Sickness, in which most Europeanlanguages substitute the letter J for the letter Y when transliterating names from ancient texts, such as:

Joel for Yael

Judah for Yehuda

Joshua for Yeheshua

Joseph for Yusuf

Jonah for Yunus

Jesusfor Yesus or Yeshua

Jehovahfor Yehowa or Yahweh

Since J is the letter used to produce the Y sound in most European languages, this complaint is an example of petty linguistic intolerance. Sheikh Deedat also rather amusingly blamed the "J" sickness on Jehovah's Witnesses, as if they, in the 20th centuryhad had the power to change the way Europeans spelled names in medieval times, so it's difficult to determine whether his bigotry was against Christiansin general, Jehovah's Witnesses, or Europeans. (Source: jamaat/name/name3)

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