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בוא נקרא לזה אינטואיציה נשית
Bo nikra laze intu’ítsya nashit.
Да скажем женская интуиция.
Call it feminine intuition.

I survived, even after 14 hours. I learned a few things about Schiphol airport: there are several restaurants, but they all serve the same food — I saw the same panini in four different restaurants. The panini wasn't bad, but I was looking for something tastier and more interesting. There were comf...

my chief--actually, only--exposure to Modern Hebrew is Ofra Haza :) If you like her, I could recommend also Gila Bashari, for example. I know I've read in a few places that there is a distinct (low-prestige) and more classically Semitic-sounding Sephardi accent - is this a thing which is now disapp...

I also thought recently that it's a bit odd that the Welsh for "week" is "wythnos" "eight nights". Why on Earth wasn't it "saithnos"!? Because there are eight periods of darkness in a normal week, starting with the AM half-night of its first day, and ending with the PM half-night of its seventh, wi...

Wait, has Modern Hebrew lost all emphatics? I knew it had the ejective-to-pharyngealized shift under influence from Aramaic and Arabic and that it lost its pharyngeal fricatives under influence from European, but I didn't realize it had lost its emphatics altogether. Ashkenazi and Yemeni Jews still...

I want to write something in a foreign language, but I don't know what to write. I read that the Israeli representative in Eurovision, who is obviously gay, was harassed at the airport in Moscow. That irritated me. I hope that the organization's leadership will say something in condemnation. Я не п...

それって、「オーファン・ブラックって何？」か「何が怖い？」、どっち？ Is that "What's Orphan Black?" or "What's creepy?" 1番目だったら、超いいドラマだよ！ if the first, it's a v good tv show! 2番目だったら、最後のエピソードの雰囲気だ。1番シリーズが最高だったけど、3番がちょっと最悪だった。今は4番で、よくなったそうだ。 if the second, the last episode's atmosphere. The first series was really good, but the thir...

Israeli citizens are required to do military service. Ммм, чуть посложнее чем «граждане обязаны». На практике служат чуть более половины призывников. А мне надо будет служить только шести месяцев, если я пригодной для служивания вообще, так что не буду например боевой, что они ни скажут о пригоднос...

I'm moving to Seattle in August. I'm excited. Everybody says that the Pacific Northwest is amazing. באליגם. Baligam. I want to as well. Ещё кто открыл то, что когда в жаркую сковородку девают жидкость для мытья посуды, становится запах у жидкости намного приятней? Who else has discovered that when ...

Proto-Semitic *θ *ð became š z in Hebrew, but θ ð were restored in Biblical Hebrew by spirantization of post-vocalic t d. PS *p *b *t *d *k *g were all replaced in post-vocalic position in Biblical Hebrew by fricatives through the same process, but p b have been restored in Modern Hebrew by borrowin...

Why did you go? some kind of check-up? Да, для армии. Я буду скоро солдаткой (может быть, если меня хотят (не хотят, наверно)). Yes, for the army. I’ll be a soldier soon (maybe, if they want me (they probably don’t)). I don't wanna tell spoilers, but the new Orphan Black is good, better than the la...

Question: Why is the derivation of ἀφρός “foam” from *n̥bʰrós “cloud” here said to be problematic because of semantic mismatch? Surely seafoam looks a lot similar to fluffy white clouds...

When Astraios writes something in both Russian and Turkish and I'm in a hurry, I don't know which language to read his post in, so I read it in English. Beni onda düzeltebildiğin dilde oku. Bi wê zimanê ku dikarî pê min rast bikî bixwine. Ну читай на языком, на котором меня можешь исправлять. Read ...

I haven't seen it. What's it about? ܗܝ ܥܠ ܚܒܘܪܬ ܐܢܫܐ ܕܫܩܠܝܢ ܠܓܠܝܕܐ ܒܚܠܠܐ ܟܕ ܚܕ ܐܢܫ ܢܦܩܥ ܠܣܦܝܢܬܗܘܢ ܕܠܡܪܫܝܘܬ ܩܪܒܐ ܒܝܬ ܠܥܪܣ. ܐܢܐ ܚܙܝܬ ܠܥܘܢܬܐ ܩܕܡܝܬܐ ܘܐܦ ܠܐ ܝܕܐܢܐ ܡܢܘ ܛܒ ܘܠܡܢ ܐܣܢܐ ܐܠܐ ܠܣܒܪܝ ܗܘ ܛܒ ܗܘ. ܘܒܢܝܘܬܗ ܕܥܠܡܐ ܛܒܐ ܗܝ. ܒܫܒܬܐ ܐܚܙܐ ܬܘܒ܀ Hi ˤal ḥḇurā nāšē ḏšāqlin leḡliḏā ḇaḥlālā ḵaḏ ḥaḏ nāš np̄aqqaˤ les...

Our textbook is "Exercises in Syriac Grammar", by Theodore H. Robinson, from Cardiff University. The fourth edition is by Oxford. ܐܢܐ ܡܫܬܡܫܢܐ ܒܣܦܪܗ ܕܬܟܡܝܬܣܘ ܡܘܪܐܘܟܐ ܘܟܬܒܢܐ ܠܢܦܫܝ ܓܪܡܛܝܩܘܬܐ ܦܫܝܛܬܐ ܡܢܗ. ܐܩܪܐ ܐܦ ܗܘ ܕܝܠܗ܀ Enā meštammeš-nā ḇsep̄rēh dTakamitsu Muraoka wḵāṯeḇ-nā lnap̄š grammaṭiquṯā p̄šiṭtā...

Vent: Life.

Я очень бухая, и очень сердитая потому, что другу не захотелось посмотреть Джентельмены предпочитают блондинок. Также потому, что я не Мэрилин Монро ни Джейн Рассел. Отстой. I’m very drunk and very angry that friend didn’t want to watch Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Also because I’m neither Marilyn Mon...

Man tnān yāḏeˤ hu leššānā suryāyā āw iṯ lēh sep̄rē ḏe-grammaṭiquṯā āw d-mellē ḏ-mallp̄in lēh?
Who here knows Syriac or has grammar or dictionary books that teach it?

“More comes out of me than you might think”. It looks like a joke based on There’s more to me than meets the eye, made gross and hilarious by putting it in a toilet.


*Not that I know anything about German, but.

Let me know how you like it. У версии, которую нашла, низкое качество, но развлекаюсь. The version I found is low quality, but I’m enjoying it. I've seen it, but I didn't like it. The plot seemed a bit ridiculous at times, and I could't believe Angelina Jolie as an action hero (though she played a ...

Not one of my more interesting dreams, but: Last night was something about being a French resistance fighter disguised as a swallow, escaping from a column of owls, and then as the owls were catching up to me I tried to fly up and away, but instead I sort of burst and flopped to the ground as a defl...

Miré Goldfinger por primera vez cuando tenía doce años y todavía es uno de mis películas favoritas. Miré El Topo cuando salió y aunque me gustaba mucho, ahora no puedo mirar películas de espías y no compararlos con ella. ¿Cómo les gusta la serie Bourne? I first saw Goldfinger when I was twelve and ...

Dema kesek karekî dike ku te nedipa û tu pirrtir ji daxwaza te werdigirî. When someone does something you weren’t expecting and you get more than you asked for. http://emojipedia-us.s3.amazonaws.com/cache/ad/d8/add80b83b92fc6d92c187de03ccf7757.png Wateya min tenê posteyên te yên tên bû, lê vî yekî ...

Vijay wrote:IPA okunabiliyor musun?
Can you read IPA?

Min xweştir divê jî. Ez jê hez dikim dema dikarim posteyan bi deng bixwînim.
I’d even prefer it. I like it when I can read posts aloud.

ഏത് ഭാഷയിൽ എഴുതേണമെന്ന് എനിക്ക് നിശ്ചയിക്കാൻ വയ്യാത്തതുകൊണ്ട് വീണ്ടും മലയാളത്തിൽ എഴുതാൻ നോക്കുകയാണ്. :P I can't decide which language to write in, so I'm trying to write in Malayalam again. اگر به مالایالامی به حروف لاتینی هم بنویسی همیشه دوستت خواهم داشت Agar be mālāyālāmi be horufe lātini ham ben...