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First, yes, I know I'm slacking here. Two weeks with no MM?? A shame. Here, this is a bit of a make-up and related to the below story. This is a song that's been in my head (and playlist) for a while. This is Mira Awad, ميرا عوض‎, singing 3azini, عزيني, or "Comfort Me". It's beautiful and haunting, which is probably why I go to it again and ( Read more... )

It's embarrassing, certainly, but I admit: even after years of use in the Japanese language, I still fuck up fundamentally grammatical points. Like wa and ga. These two particles, for those who don't speak Japanese, are a "topic marker" and a "subject marker" respectively, and are not interchangeable, even if their general use (connecting a ( Read more... )

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Yay a song in three languages! I'm a big fan of La Oreja de Van Gogh -- yes, even with their new vocalist, and I'm still waiting for a new freakin' album! -- and I'd posted before their song "Jueves," about the Madrid bombing years ago. But little did I know that this was also performed not only with the lead singer of LOVG, but also Mira Awad ( ( Read more... )

I'm gonna go all over the place with this artcicle -- it might seem a bit ADHD, but bare with me ...


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Modern Israeli Hebrew is a curious creature, to be certain. Simplified and "purified" by a Russian, it is the only example of a successfully revived language. That being said, the changes made move it further from Semitic languages and closer to Western languages, and these changes have made a few people in the linguistics field even question the ( Read more... )

My friend Mario's been chatting with me on Bear411, and everytime I say something in English, he responds in a dialect of Arabic, causing me to then respond in Arabic ( Read more... )