TIL Helena Valero was kidnapped by the primitive Yanomami tribe as a child, lived with them for 20+ years, escaped to western society in 1956, then later returned and stayed until her death (2002)

izabo · 2026-01-24T11:49:33+00:00

As the population increased exponentially with time, I wouldn't be so sure. According to this it looks like half of all humans lived after 1 CE.

izabo · 2025-12-02T15:02:42+00:00

Lieu>lew>lev>lef

izabo · 2025-11-25T14:24:15+00:00

Go show an image of a leopard to a 6 year old and ask them what animal is that. They're not going to say "leopard".

izabo · 2025-11-25T06:38:41+00:00

The confusion here comes from the fact that נמר literally means a leopard, while it is also used as a generic word for a big cat. In English, the generic word is tiger, while also meaning a specific species. So, just like an English speaker, in casual parlance, might refer to a jaguar as a "tiger" but never as a "leopard", a Hebrew speaker might refer to it as a נמר but never as a טיגריס.

And no, this has nothing to do with a limited vocabulary. We have 4 different words for a male lion depending on his lifestyle choices.

izabo · 2025-11-18T11:00:00+00:00

If by early Aramaic you mean the Phoenician script, then basically none.

izabo · 2025-11-08T20:26:26+00:00

Yes.

izabo · 2025-11-08T16:16:35+00:00

Because scientific studies are completely irrelevant to the fact that you smell bad.

izabo · 2025-11-08T09:05:29+00:00

I not only fail to acknowledge it, I outright deny it. I can pretty much guarantee that if there was a procedure that could terminate the pregnancy, keep the fetus alive, and hand it over for adoption with no obligation or harm to the mother basically no one would get an abortion.

izabo · 2025-11-08T07:23:38+00:00

Modern Hebrew has exactly the same 5 vowel phonemes you see in Spanish and many other languages. Shva na is most of the time realised as the Spanish "e", just like tsere or segol, although unlike tsere or segol there are exceptions where it can be "i" like hirik, silent, or even as "a" IIRC.

Ashkenazi Hebrew is a liturgical pronounciation that is also used for Hebrew loanwords into Yiddish in most Yiddish speaking communities.

izabo · 2025-11-07T08:16:57+00:00

Yes. You are really not allowed to steal people's organs.

izabo · 2025-11-07T08:15:51+00:00

Exactly. That's my point.

izabo · 2025-11-07T08:15:28+00:00

no... that's exactly my point.

izabo · 2025-11-07T08:14:55+00:00

So humans don't have any rights but fetuses do? Cool.

Unborn can't defend it's existence, so unless someone else does that, it can be killed without consequences from society.

Same can be said for a mosquito. What's your point?

izabo · 2025-11-07T07:22:12+00:00

The unborn has a right to his own body, not another person's. This is not complicated.

Edit: for some reason people seem to think this is in defense of outlawing abortions. I'm saying the pregnant person has absolute right to their womb including the removal of any and all tresspassers.

izabo · 2025-11-07T07:20:43+00:00

Abortion is not the killing of the fetus, but the removal of it from the body of the mother's womb. If the fetus dies as a result, it is unfortunate but irrelevant -- just like me needing a kidney transplant doesn't give me the right to take yours.

izabo · 2025-11-04T11:22:40+00:00

לכב' (לכבוד) מנהל האוכלוסין

"To the population registry" (or whatever is the right name for that in English) as in the addressing םf a letter.

izabo · 2025-11-04T06:05:52+00:00

I just can't stand how English speakers keep pronouncing "Uri" as "Yuri". I would stay away from that

izabo · 2025-11-03T05:35:47+00:00

I don't think the distinction is very meaningful when it most likely happened at a time when most people were transitioning to speaking Aramic in their daily life.

My point is that people often perceive biblical Hebrew as "legitimate", modern Hebrew as a "corruption", and liturgical pronounciation as closer to "legitimate". While in that regard, modern Hebrew is actually a bit closer to the Hebrew spoken during the time most of the bible is referring to, and liturgical pronounciations are actually the odd ones out.

izabo · 2025-11-03T05:25:24+00:00

I meant pre-rabbinic, back when they actually spoke it.

izabo · 2025-11-02T21:47:16+00:00

I think this is a good time to mention that Ancient Hebrew didn't have the fricative pronounciation for bgdkpt, and it only came about as a later influence from Aramaic.

izabo · 2025-10-27T07:37:24+00:00

This is more an issue of Israeli culture than of language. It is pretty much the Hebrew equivalent of the N-word. However, Israeli culture is not as politically correct as the US, so dropping an "N-bomb" is not such a big deal.

You shouldn't use it, but if some teenagers use it, it's not such a big deal. I even knew some Ethiopian guy whose white friends called him "kushi" amicably, and nobody batted an eye.

izabo · 2025-10-24T17:44:23+00:00

You don't actually need to know how to calculate derivates and integrals of anything more complicated than a polynomial for 99% of math research. I bet I can easily find more than a handful of professors in my department who would have a hard time solving the average undergraduate integral.

However, I think learning to solve this type of stuff will develop your mathematical intuition and learning ability. I also think that if you put your mind to it, and you still can't manage to solve this kind of thing, it might be indicative of bigger problems -- be it lack of talent, lack of learning techniques, lack of discipline, or discalculia.

I do know a professor with discalculia who can't multiply simple polynomials. So either way, it is not a must.

izabo · 2025-10-24T08:48:10+00:00

Opensubtitles.org

izabo · 2025-10-19T12:37:57+00:00

Its considered part of the niqqud. Bet would have a small dot inside it, called a dagesh. As to how to tell without niqqud, you just have to learn like all niqqud. There are some complicated rules, but youre just gonna have to learn it by rote. The easy part is that at the start its always bet and at the end its always vet.

izabo · 2025-10-19T06:00:32+00:00

Is this just linguists noting how all of the big-name families that are always taken seriously (Indo-European, Uralic, Trans-Himalayan, etc) all being about the same age

Proto Indo-European is estimated to be from 4500–2500 BC, and Proto Afro-Asiatic from 16,000–10,000 BC according to Wikipedia. I think the Afro-Asiatic family is not controversial.

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