I'd say "v'hu amar" (I'd also say "ani dibarti"). What's Melton? I think there should be "et" after "ohevet", and "shana" should be "hashanah" to match "hazot". I think "elmade" should be "elamed".
Mems: argh! I wish I could get over that particular bit of dyslexia or whatever. I don't know why I do this.
Thanks for the corrections! Melton is a program of adult learning (I didn't know how to say "program" or "course"; "shiur" didn't seem right for the latter). It runs for two years (one night a week) and covers texts, theology, and other stuff. It requires no background, so I was concerned that it would be too basic for me, but my rabbi recommends it anyway.
Sounds like it could be a good program. I bet it'll be more interesting while you're taking it :-).
I wonder if the mems have something to do with too much looking like a capital N. Since in Hebrew you're writing from the other direction, the "N" has to come from the other side, in the other direction, as it were. Maybe.
Sounds like it could be a good program. I bet it'll be more interesting while you're taking it :-).
I have hopes. :-)
I think my mem problem is that the backwards form resembles (to my eye) the square-script letter, while the correct form does not. In square script the mem has a little doo-hickey (err, not ascender because it's in the body, and not serif exactly) in the upper left; the up-stroke in the backwards form maps to that in my mind. There is no vertical stroke on the right in square script, so it seems odd to have a stray one here.
No I'm not really trying to apply logic to an alphabet -- just trying to disect the connections that have formed in my mind.
I'd have said "lilmod b'Melton" instead of "latet Melton." "Tachat," while correct in "tachat Ivrit," is more Biblical Hebrew than Modern, to my ear, and I would've said "bimkom."
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I'd say "v'hu amar" (I'd also say "ani dibarti"). What's Melton? I think there should be "et" after "ohevet", and "shana" should be "hashanah" to match "hazot". I think "elmade" should be "elamed".
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Thanks for the corrections! Melton is a program of adult learning (I didn't know how to say "program" or "course"; "shiur" didn't seem right for the latter). It runs for two years (one night a week) and covers texts, theology, and other stuff. It requires no background, so I was concerned that it would be too basic for me, but my rabbi recommends it anyway.
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I wonder if the mems have something to do with too much looking like a capital N. Since in Hebrew you're writing from the other direction, the "N" has to come from the other side, in the other direction, as it were. Maybe.
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I have hopes. :-)
I think my mem problem is that the backwards form resembles (to my eye) the square-script letter, while the correct form does not. In square script the mem has a little doo-hickey (err, not ascender because it's in the body, and not serif exactly) in the upper left; the up-stroke in the backwards form maps to that in my mind. There is no vertical stroke on the right in square script, so it seems odd to have a stray one here.
No I'm not really trying to apply logic to an alphabet -- just trying to disect the connections that have formed in my mind.
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(also, your zayin is backwards.)
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