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sethg
·قبل 15 سنة·discuss
As someone who has learned classical Hebrew and Aramaic up to the “if I torture the page for long enough it usually confesses”, I love the root-and-pattern Semitic grammar, up until the point where I have to look a word up in a dictionary, because a lot of root letters actually drop out of the inflected forms, so I have to flip back and forth looking for possible candidate root forms. And prepositions are just tacked onto the beginnings of words, so especially in un-vowelled text, one can confuse a preposition for part of the root. And Talmudic commentaries are often written in a mishmash of Hebrew and Aramaic, because after all, if you can’t read both Hebrew and Aramaic, you shouldn’t be reading the Talmud in the first place.... Good times.
sethg
·قبل 15 سنة·discuss
Were the Israeli soldiers in question first-generation immigrants from Russia or the US?
sethg
·قبل 17 سنة·discuss
I'm not going to defend Naggum's online style, but for God's sake, the man just died and he probably isn't even in the ground yet. There was plenty of time for a meta-debate regarding netiquette while he was active on Usenet, and there will be plenty of time for retrospectives on the subject in the future. This week, though--if not for Naggum's own sake, then for the sake of his grieving friends and relatives--can we just take a break from the subject?