I am boycotting English.

No, wait, that came out wrong; I am boycotting prose in English for a while, because obviously if you read this it means I wrote it in the first place. In English. I also suppose I should add poetry to that, even though I don't read a lot of it ( Read more... )

We had an assignment for today to find determining facts about languages. Two synchronic, two diachronic and two comparative ( Read more... )

I've decided to start a small collection of newspaper clippings, of articles I find amusing/interesting/whatever and clever caricatures ( Read more... )

My most favourite Hebrew phrase is this: A great woman put on her shoe, and locked the door in her husband's face ( Read more... )

It somewhat fills me with glee to see this on ynet.co.il, all in one place:


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I FINALLY KNOW WHAT THE VERB BUILDINGS MEAN IN HEBREW! {For the record, nobody really knows what the hell is going on with Heberw verbs and why we have seven -- 'hitpa'el' is both passive and active.}

{Pa'al [aka Kal] / Nif'al / Pi'el / Pu'al / Hitpa'el / Hif'il / Huf'al}

Pa'al is specific action. "Lavash" means 'he wore [something specific ( Read more... )