It seems like you have the best of the two worlds :) Why are you doing
this? In fact is the result not that your prononciation does not equal not
ashkenasi and not sephardi?
<<I must oppose Elisheva Schwartz's conclusion that modern Israeli Hebrew
is not Lashon Hakodesh (the 'Holy Tounge'). A language does not cease to be
because of different pronounciations.>>
This may be true for other languages , but it may be different with Hebrew
which is very special because Torah is written in it.
<<At the most it becomes a dialect of the mother language. Futhermore all
languages develop as time passes including Lashon Hakodesh - Mishnaic and
Talmudic Hebrew are different from Torah Hebrew, a fact that the Talmud
explicitly states.(Chulin 137b' Avoda Zara 55b)>>
However, Mishna and Talmud both are part of Torah, while Yedioth Ahronoth
is not. So it can not dictate standards of the correct Hebrew.
<<Just as no one (I hope) can claim that Mishnaic Hebrew is not Lashon
Hakodesh due to the differences between it and Torah Hebrew, so it can not
be claimed that modern Israeli Hebrew is not Lashon Hakodesh either due to
changes in words or pronounciation.>>
What makes "Lashon" - the language - "Kodesh" - sacred? Changes in the
language introduced in Mishan and Talmud are different in this from the
changes introduced by the creators of the modern hebrew: the language was
not sacred for the latter.
MST
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