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debka_notion ([personal profile] debka_notion) wrote2010-02-03 08:14 am

Obscure Or Obvious?

Do you know what a doppelganger is? More accurately, how troubled should I be that many of my rabbinical school classmates a. don't know what a doppelganger is, and b. try to spell it as two words?

Just a thought from the insane place in my mind that is me trying to avoid exams...

[identity profile] margavriel.livejournal.com 2010-02-03 01:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Oy. Yes, of course I know what a doppelgänger is. And oy.

Good luck on exams!

(FYI, if you're in a font or system in which it's unwieldy to include the umlaut, the convention is to replace |ä| with |ae|, not just |a|, so: doppelgaenger. Oh, look, Wikipedia says that your spelling is also an acceptable alternative in English. OK.)