I'd heard that before (as well as the similar problems, for similar reasons, which live in Arabic).
I think, for all it's griefs, quirks and semi-sensical oddities (I recall trying to absorb the concept of the plural form of the singular "one", which I've had great headaches to try explaining the idea to English speaker, because they see it as a grouping of unique objects, and that's not it. Is the number one, and it's plural), I'm glad I was attacking Russian, much as I'd like to put Hebrew in roster of things I understand.
I saw a horrid piece of language in use the other night. It was a tote-bag, with the word "Shoah" on it. Before each of the letters was a Hebrew letter. Knowing just enough of the alphabet to see the Sh was where it "ought" to be for the word to properly read (i.e. right to left), but to those who don't know that, the impression was that the letters mapped to the one's they immediately preceded.
Better to have put the one word, over the other, if you ask me. The person who had the bag, didn't see the problem. She spoke Hebrew, and anyone who didn't was just gonna have to accept being confused. She didn't see it that way, she just didn't see (actually) that it could be confusing.
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Re: Shepherding wind
Date: 2008-02-14 05:44 pm (UTC)I think, for all it's griefs, quirks and semi-sensical oddities (I recall trying to absorb the concept of the plural form of the singular "one", which I've had great headaches to try explaining the idea to English speaker, because they see it as a grouping of unique objects, and that's not it. Is the number one, and it's plural), I'm glad I was attacking Russian, much as I'd like to put Hebrew in roster of things I understand.
I saw a horrid piece of language in use the other night. It was a tote-bag, with the word "Shoah" on it. Before each of the letters was a Hebrew letter. Knowing just enough of the alphabet to see the Sh was where it "ought" to be for the word to properly read (i.e. right to left), but to those who don't know that, the impression was that the letters mapped to the one's they immediately preceded.
Better to have put the one word, over the other, if you ask me. The person who had the bag, didn't see the problem. She spoke Hebrew, and anyone who didn't was just gonna have to accept being confused. She didn't see it that way, she just didn't see (actually) that it could be confusing.
Sadly, she's studying teaching.
TK