On Wed, Feb 28, 2001, Ilya Konstantinov wrote about "Re: Hebrew Keyboard":
> On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 08:52:37PM +0200, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> > [1] Someone decided that this keyboard is IsraeLy, and not necessarily
> > related to HEbrew. And heb was very keen to show that keymaps relate to
> > countries and not to languages (this is irrelevant for us and a bit less
> > true for us, bet never mind). thus the name "il" stuck. Therefore you
> > should 'setxkbmap il' and not 'setxkbmap $LANG'
>
> Someone also decided we're Israelian (instead of Israeli), so I'd
> rather believe they're clueless :)
It's interesting how Israelis take for granted that we should be called
"Israeli" and not "Israelian". If you think about it for a moment, you'll
see that most nationalities end with "an", although there are a lot of
weird cases (compare canadIAN, americAN, peruVIAN, french, german, englISH,
JapanESE, etc.), but no nationality ends with an "i" like "Israeli" does.
In fact, the m-w.com dictionary lists "Israeli" as simply the transliteration
of the Hebrew word "israeli", it's not a natural English form, and I have
no idea why it was accepted into English in the first place.
So it's not surprising that people with no close ties to Israel (or that
don't listen to the news too carefully ;)) don't know we're not "Israelian"...
After all, how many people know that the people of Hungary are Magyar, or
that Finland in Finnish is actually Suomi and Japanese call their country
Nippon (or however it's pronounced in Japanese)?
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