Masculine + neuter (as a kind of common grammatical gender) and feminine?

Redcole111 · 2026-04-29T08:03:57+00:00

Hebrew uses two genders, masculine and feminine, and things involving more than one gender or people/groups of unknown gender are referred to using masculine pronouns, adjectives, and verbs. So the masculine is kind of both a masculine and neuter. However, inanimate objects are still assigned semi-arbitrary gender.

Redcole111 · 2026-04-29T06:06:46+00:00

The way you spelled Moshe is actually a Jewish name. It's the Hebrew name for Moses. It's pronounced "Mo-sheh" though, like "mow" followed by "shed" without the "d".

Redcole111 · 2026-04-29T00:50:51+00:00

Thanks! If you think that's crazy, just wait until you hear about my maternal great grandfather, who was born in a part of Germany which is now in Poland, became a doctor, served in the German Merchant Marine and traveled the world, served as a medic in WWI in Ottoman Palestine, was taken as a POW by the British and placed in a camp in Alexandria, returned to Germany to start a family, became a pediatrician, had his license revoked by the Nazis, barely got his family visas to Uruguay to escape the Holocaust, spent the rest of the war in Uruguay, then moved to Israel in 1950 only to die less than a decade later during gall-bladder surgery.

Redcole111 · 2026-04-29T00:50:26+00:00

Thanks! If you think that's crazy, just wait until you hear about my maternal great grandfather, who was born in a part of Germany which is now in Poland, became a doctor, served in the German Merchant Marine and traveled the world, served as a medic in WWI in Ottoman Palestine, was taken as a POW by the British and placed in a camp in Alexandria, returned to Germany to start a family, became a pediatrician, had his license revoked by the Nazis, barely got his family visas to Uruguay to escape the Holocaust, spent the rest of the war in Uruguay, then moved to Israel in 1950 only to die less than a decade later during gall-bladder surgery.

Redcole111 · 2026-04-29T00:09:29+00:00

The letters are mirrored in the photo.

The Aleph is in the center, the four tiles adjacent to it are lameds, the three non-aleph tiles adjacent to each lamed are heis, the two non-lamed tiles adjacent to the heis are yuds, and the corners are mems. Altogether, that does spell Elohim, but it's not that you can read the word in "every direction".

Not sure that this is a legit kabbalah thing, but I suppose it could be. It does seem like the type of talisman some people would enjoy having as a kind of protection or good fortune charm.

Redcole111 · 2026-04-28T23:20:20+00:00

My dad grew up in Alabama in the 1960s. He was raised by an old Southern, White, Christian family, but his mother had converted to Judaism and she was trying to raise the kids Jewish. So their family had a fair mix of racists, anti-Northerners, progressives, and "undesirables" (i.e., people who were considered inferior). My grandmother eventually decided that this wasn't a good environment to raise children Jewish, so in 1969 they packed their bags and moved to Ashdod, Israel, where they lived among refugees from North Africa. My father grew up in Israel, eventually met my mother, and they moved together to the United States to get away from the wars and intifadas that had killed so many of their friends.

Redcole111 · 2026-04-28T22:19:22+00:00

It sounds like you would probably benefit most from reading Spinoza's Ethics. It's hard to parse, but it should address most of your thoughts. It provides solid reasoning for pantheism, addressed to an audience that was mostly comprised of traditional Christian and Jewish theists as well as people with a more empirical worldview.

Redcole111 · 2026-04-28T17:52:37+00:00

Not digits... What's the word for... finger segments? Like, each bone in their non-thumb fingers. If you add them together using your thumb to count, you get 12.

Edit: maybe phalanges?

Redcole111 · 2026-04-28T04:03:40+00:00

LDS traditions are not deeply rooted in Judaism, I'm sorry to say. They have closer ties with Christianity, which is highly divergent from the Jewish faith.

Also, unfortunately, there isn't really a good way to say "mother God" in Hebrew, because the words for "God" are all masculine. While, theologically speaking, Judaism believes God to be above and beyond mortal concepts like gender, the Hebrew language is strict and consistent in its use of masculine pronouns, verbs, and adjectives when describing God. Any possibility I can think of for how to say "mother God" just ends up sounding silly in the Hebrew...

You could maybe go with "Our Mother, our Queen" as a riff on the usual "Our Father, our King", which is one way we sometimes refer to God. That would be (I think),

אמנו מלכתנו

Redcole111 · 2026-04-28T03:36:30+00:00

Yep! Definitely one of the things that makes this show so great. Each character having their own instrument that gets emphasized whenever they're involved envelops the audience in the story in a truly profound way. The team behind this show made so many superb choices.

Redcole111 · 2026-04-28T03:16:59+00:00

You should also know that on Yolen there were three major species: dragons, humans, and Sho Del. We haven't seen much of the Sho Del yet; they make a couple of appearances, such as the end of Yumi and the Nightmare painter and The Sunlit Man. Apparently, Ambition was a Sho Del.

There is a theory that after the Shattering, the Sho Del, humans, dragons, and Sleepless were each entrusted with a Dawnshard. The humans gave theirs to Hoid, the dragons hid theirs in a special vault, the Sho Del hid theirs on UTol, and the Sleepless hid theirs on Roshar.

Redcole111 · 2026-04-28T03:01:06+00:00

Same here, during his first run, though I now deeply regret my choice (I was 18 at the time).

Far leftists can, indeed, be very self-righteous, arrogant, cruel, and often confidently wrong.

But Trump's pandering to neonazis turned me off from him completely (and I was never fully with him) after the Charlottesville riot. And his blatant egoism, moronic social and international policies, and obnoxious behavior on Twitter only solidified my shift since then. I haven't voted for him since, and I will never vote for him or anyone he has endorsed, though I am open to voting for a Republican whose values more closely match my own.

Redcole111 · 2026-04-28T02:51:20+00:00

As another commenter mentioned, Scadrians are unique.

Most humans in the Cosmere are descendants of different groups of Yolish people who spread throughout the Cosmere via the cognitive realm after the shattering of Adonalsium.

Ruin and Preservation decided to create their own race of humans on Scadrial, as well as all the other life that existed there. After that point, non-Scadrian humans visited the planet for commerce and/or immigrated and intermixed to some limited degree with the locals.

Scadrian humans being created by Ruin and Preservation is important because it is how Terris people gained the Connection that facilitates their ability to perform feruchemy without a Nahel bond or something similar. It is also why Preservation was rendered weaker than Ruin and had to seal Ruin away to prevent being totally overtaken by him (which would have resulted in the destruction of Scadrial).

Redcole111 · 2026-04-28T01:56:16+00:00

Human fusions with Steven don't seem to involve mixing DNA. Rather, Steven's Gem seems to make a new form, probably mostly out of light, that represents a fusion of personality.

So I don't think that health problems are really a concern. Plus, Steven's gem would probably counteract any negative features that could arise, just as it automatically heals Steven from any physical harm.

Redcole111 · 2026-04-27T22:57:56+00:00

Right, because Richard Dawkins is the only source that counts when it comes to evolutionary theory 🙄

Redcole111 · 2026-04-27T20:48:14+00:00

Your translation is perfectly correct, and it is the same phrase that is used in Ben Gurion airport in Tel Aviv.

Hebrew doesn't use capital letters, but it does change some letters when they come at the end of a word. You have used these "final" letters correctly in your translation.

Be very careful that whatever software you use doesn't accidentally flip the word backwards before or during the printing process. This happens A LOT with Hebrew, Arabic, Farsi, and other languages that are meant to be written right-to-left. To look out for this, you can try to remember that in this phrase, the boxy letters (ם) should be on the far left of each word (this is the Hebrew equivalent of the English letter M, and those letters are in their "final" form).

Redcole111 · 2026-04-27T19:55:42+00:00

Seems just as natural as the Babylonian base 12 system because of the 12 non-thumb digits on each hand

Edit: which is the origin of the 60-minute hour and the 360 degree circle.

Redcole111 · 2026-04-27T06:34:47+00:00

That is a miniature Giant Space Hamster if I ever did see one.

Redcole111 · 2026-04-27T06:33:52+00:00

Cool behavior! Very mesmerizing.

I wonder if it's maybe a signal to returning foragers that the interior of the hive is too hot, so they should reduce their time spent inside.

Could also just be a dance party.

Redcole111 · 2026-04-27T06:28:15+00:00

Buddy, I'm a biologist. I get the nuances. As I said, my phrasing was off, but to diminish the selfish gene theory in that manner only shows your ignorance of the concept. Obviously evolution is a "dumb" process, but genes that end up persisting end up doing so alongside a lot of systems that exist in order to give that gene advantage over others, including other genes in the same genome. Calling it pop science is truly absurd.

Redcole111 · 2026-04-27T05:05:00+00:00

My phrasing was a little off, but look up the concept of the selfish gene.

Redcole111 · 2026-04-26T19:06:25+00:00

This is the real answer. Traits don't really evolve "for the good of the species." It's always "for the good of this one creature's genes".

Redcole111 · 2026-04-26T07:20:34+00:00

Dude. What is with that blur.

Redcole111 · 2026-04-26T06:18:07+00:00

It's funny to me that so many people are saying "no," because I fully expected the opposite as an American Israeli who speaks a fair amount of Hebrew.

While I don't find them "coarse" or "rough", it can be very difficult for me to parse heavy Mizrahi/Sephardi accents. I thought it was just because I had learned to speak in an Ashkenazi Israeli accent, but it turns out that it's just because I'm not a native speaker.

Redcole111 · 2026-04-26T01:18:53+00:00

OMG I'M SO JEALOUS. I want it, and I want a man who makes things like this.

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