The Hebrew Language Academy is responsible for many language innovations that have become established in our lives, and its people work day and night to find creative and practical solutions for new words and expressions that will fit into the daily routine of Hebrew speakers in Israel and around the world. Every day the academy receives diverse questions about how to pronounce words in the Hebrew language correctly.
“ but the word cigarette has never been given a Hebrew alternative”
In a post published by the Academy of Languages, a Hebrew alternative to the word – cigarette was proposed, the origin of the word cigarette is borrowed from the French word cigarette, which is also derived from the word cigar (cigar), so it is not a traditional Hebrew word anyway, the academy says that many people contact them asking to replace the word cigarette with Cancerous’. According to them, everyone already knows that a cigarette causes cancer, and if we start calling it ‘cancerous’ it will be even more difficult for people to smoke a cigarette.
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“A Hebrew alternative to cigarettes – cancerous?”
In a post she published on the subject of the Academy of Languages, she discussed the request to replace the word cigarette “A Hebrew alternative to cigarette – cancer? The word cigarette has never been given a Hebrew alternative, but underwent a slight adjustment: upon its absorption in Hebrew, it was given the suffix -ya, which is typical of Hebrew names whose grammatical gender is female.”
“No one will ask for a boat from their friend’s cancer”
The academy added that in recent years, many people (starting with ‘Maccabi Health Services’ and ending with creator Yonatan Barak) have approached them with an intriguing and surprising recommendation – to replace the word cigarette with ‘cancerous’, when they refer the logic of the decision to the proposal of ‘Maccabi Health Services’.
“Everyone knows that cigarette makes cancer, and it is clear that if we start calling her” cancerous “it will be even harder for people to take a cigarette next to. His”.
“The Hebrew Language Academy did not establish the word ‘cancerous’ as a Hebrew alternative to the word cigarette”
At the moment, the Academy does not intend to respond to the original proposal, but it addressed the followers with the question “The Academy of the Hebrew Language has not established the word ‘cancerous’ as a Hebrew alternative to the word cigarette –
But we are interested to hear what you think? A worthy offer or an annoying offer?”