What is Linguistic Intolerance?
1.
A symptom of
Some linguistically intolerant
Jew s andMuslims , such as the late Sheikh Ahmed Deedat complain about what they call, the J Sickness, in which mostEuropean languages 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
Jesus for Yesus orYeshua
Jehovah for Yehowa orYahweh
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 the20th century had had the power to change the way Europeans spelled names in medieval times, so it's difficult to determine whether his bigotry was againstChristians in general, Jehovah's Witnesses, orEuropean s. (Source: jamaat/name/name3)
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