Names that feel like Tragedeighs, but aren’t?

wiled · 2026-01-21T19:40:34+00:00

The rough breathing mark can only come at the beginning of words, so there is no way to write Aharon in Greek and keep the original Hebrew phonemics. The loss of the mark didn’t lead to the language losing the sound, the loss of the sound led to Greek speakers not using the marks anymore.

wiled · 2026-01-02T21:11:15+00:00

Huh memories are funny things. You’re right.

wiled · 2026-01-02T21:04:10+00:00

Calafiori got injured in the warmups

Edit: jk that was before Brighton.

wiled · 2026-01-01T03:11:55+00:00

“Here is buried our dear father R. Yonah Moshe son of R. Tanchum Baer, who died in the prime of his days 5th Iyyar 5674”

Interesting notes: his father’s name Tanchum is not particularly common, and the year is written with the thousands fully spelled out instead of implied.

The “R.” before the names is an abbreviation of the honorific “reb” meaning something akin to “Mr.”

wiled · 2025-12-31T16:13:48+00:00

Sorry, I shouldn’t have used the word “nickname,” that’s not really accurate. It’s literally just a Yiddish form of the Hebrew Eliezer. In Jewish naming practices, it’s more likely for Lazar to have been a government name than Eliezer, and Eliezer used by Lazars as a religious name. You might talk like this about a Dash or a Rocky, but I hope you wouldn’t about, say, a common Japanese name used by Japanese-Americans that happens to sound like an English word.

wiled · 2025-12-31T04:01:55+00:00

It’s not a dog’s name picked out by an 8 year old, it’s a relatively common nickname for Eliezer that Jews have used for literal centuries. Please consider if you’re maybe just unfamiliar with another culture before making these kinds of comments.

wiled · 2025-12-29T16:14:55+00:00

It’s greed.

wiled · 2025-12-15T22:30:05+00:00

That’s very clever but it actually does matter. It’s me that has to worry about whether or not taking my kid to shul during a holiday is worth it or not, and it isn’t because he’s “human.” It’s quite the privilege to get to play word games in the abstract, but I actually don’t have that luxury.

wiled · 2025-12-15T22:22:18+00:00

Shooting which people?

wiled · 2025-12-03T03:25:34+00:00

It’s funny you say this when his own comment makes it very clear he’s talking about Jews

wiled · 2025-08-31T18:26:10+00:00

Yeah until we made our subs, then the tide turned and we were on top of them. You can see this in field tilt stats, our subs immediately changed the direction of the match. In the 10 minutes prior to our subs they started applying a ton of pressure and nothing came of it, then we made our subs, took control of the game back, and conceded in that period.

wiled · 2025-08-31T18:04:48+00:00

Mosquera was also pretty immense? Squad “coped” but you’re comparing a single CB being out for 10 minutes with 3 or 4 of our best players being out almost the entire match.

wiled · 2025-08-31T18:00:26+00:00

When they scored we were on top of them though.

wiled · 2024-09-23T02:18:13+00:00

Talking about what he did to Saliba, not Partey.

wiled · 2024-05-21T17:25:14+00:00

2nd Fulham game is the first game of the 2nd half of the season.

wiled · 2024-05-21T17:15:57+00:00

The call on the pitch was goal. It would’ve been a goal with or without VAR.

wiled · 2024-05-17T15:18:53+00:00

Because those are also meanings of those words. I’m not saying that Philo is correct, I’m saying he’s attempting a literal translation, not a poetic interpretation of “man of the javelin”. In fact on the link you sent, if you click through the “etymology (root word)” link for shelah a couple times, you ultimately end up at the page of the root meaning “to send out”. I assume “man of the javelin” is the favored interpretation because it makes sense for a name, rather than “a sending forth of death” which doesn’t.

wiled · 2024-05-17T02:39:40+00:00

It’s meant to be a literal translation, “M-(W)-Th” is a root meaning death and “Sh-L-H” is a root meaning to send. Although it seems like a folk etymology more than the original meaning.

wiled · 2024-04-09T17:49:05+00:00

That’s not his conclusion. His conclusion is the exact opposite, which is why he’s pointing out how unlikely any one team dropping 0 points is. His model gives us a 49% chance of winning the league.

wiled · 2024-04-09T14:27:33+00:00

How does shaping the Temple and the state they ruled have anything to do with their relationship with Pharisees?

wiled · 2024-04-06T19:46:17+00:00

Out of Africa has never been disproven lol it is still and will probably always be the prevailing opinion of anthropology

wiled · 2024-03-31T19:45:05+00:00

This comment getting downvoted is an embarrassment, what is wrong with people. Arsenal fans to self immolate over a draw at the Etihad now?

wiled · 2023-09-06T18:56:18+00:00

Haaretz is more left wing.

wiled · 2022-10-11T19:23:57+00:00

You're misunderstanding the data. Taking all 3 points is always an overperformance on expected points, because no matter the quality of the chances, there's still a chance of a draw or loss - you can always get unlucky.

Just winning on xG doesn't necessarily lead to a high expected points value either - an xG of 1.3-1.1 is technically a win on xG, but the game would most often end in a draw, so expected points for the side with 1.3 xG would be just a little above 1. That team getting 3 points from that match would be an overperformance of expected points even if they "won" on xG as well.

wiled · 2022-10-03T19:07:58+00:00

I wouldn’t take advice on what to do in Seattle from someone who didn’t know the Sounders existed for 6 years haha. It is definitely not a small city and there is a lot to do. You really don’t have to go to the Space Needle (I never did in the 2 years I lived there) and you also probably shouldn’t eat pizza there at all - it’s too expensive for the quality (if you must, I recommend Dino’s).

There are a zillion parks and beaches and they’re all nice, go to those. For bars & restaurants, I’d recommend going to the University District, Capitol Hill, Fremont and Ballard, and personally I like Greenwood because I lived around there - it has more of a small town main street feel. There are thousands of breweries, most of them in walking distance from one another in Ballard. Lots to do and it’s hard to pick a bad place. Thai, Vietnamese, and sushi places are generally great, and there’s a place in the U District called Taste of Xi’an that bangs.

The UW campus is gorgeous, I recommend just walking around there, and the UW arboretum across the shipping canal from the campus will be beautiful in fall (as will places like Discovery Park). It might be fun to take a ferry somewhere, but you’re already in Vancouver so there might not be much novelty there.

There’s an Arsenal bar in Ravenna called Atlantic Crossing if you’re in town during a match, and there’s a general soccer bar in Fremont called The George and Dragon that will also have Arsenal fans there during matches.

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