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“Rayban charity glasses event” is a scam don’t click any link in a post that says that.

Old tumblr users remember this scam back when it first went out.

Also no, this isn’t a joke. This phishing scam is 100% running its course again so watch out for your mutuals long abandoned accounts suddenly posting it. Please make everyone aware of it since most users here are newbies who have not seen it before!

splend-42

maidenvault

Not “Only my reading of canon is correct” or “Interpretations are subjective and all valid” but a secret third thing, “More than one interpretation can be valid but there’s a reason your English teacher had you cite quotes and examples in your papers, you have to have a strong argument that your interpretation is actually supported by the text or it is just wrong and I’m fine with telling you it’s wrong, actually.”

mooncustafer

If the text says the curtains are blue you can argue about what that means; but if you’re going to claim they’re actually yellow you’d better have a really good argument.

queeranarchism

Fun fact: in the 80′s the Dutch Unemployed Union held ‘fridge raids’ to protest against poverty.

They’d find out when a politician of big boss who upheld poverty and starvation wages was speaking at some public even, then they’d carefully break into his house with a LOT of people and they would eat EVERY piece of food in his house and leave the empty dished behind without taking anything else.

gottamoveonup-deactivated201612

Direct action at its finest.

themasterplanner

I theoretically disapprove, but at least it’s ballsy as fuck.

themasterplanner

I no longer disapprove.

thebroccoligoblin

Growth

messingwithvampires

One time my brother’s construction crew didn’t get paid on time. So he went to the boss’ house at dinnertime and when the boss opened the door my brother walked right in, asking “what’s for dinner?” And while the boss sputtered and protested, my brother started going through his fridge, calmly explaining that since he didn’t get paid, he didn’t have money for groceries, and his kid was sitting hungry at home because they didn’t have dinner. The boss’ family looked on in horror as my brother commented on how much nice food the boss had in his fridge. Until the boss finally loaded my brother up with a bunch of stuff out of the freezer and managed to get him to leave. Everyone got paid the next day and, as far as I know, they got paid on time as long as my brother worked there. Who knew that being supremely annoying could be such a gift?!

chandelyer-deactivated20241003

I’m sorry, but aren’t we collectively tired of all our clothes being made of polyester?

toastbutteregg

morriganwarrior

Yes. I even have a few favourites I re-play every now and again.

themarchingpenguin

YUP!

blackvelvetofnight

people who enter my home will be shown an assortment of objects

helila

izzymatic-art

I spat this out faster than I thought I was going to haha.

Thank you again Critical Role and your amazing story telling.

lookingformydruid

It’s the way he gets her to smile like this that does it for me

Edit: one of the photos had disappeared cause this site is dumb

sorekbekarmi-deactivated2022051

My friend just sent this to me and said “you will appreciate this” and she was VERY correct

infinitywithoutparallel

So, this is fine and all, but wasn’t most of written Hebrew lost and someone just, rebuilt it and we’re fairly sure it’s not the same?

sorekbekarmi-deactivated2022051

That has actually already been addressed on this very post! ^_^

Oral transmission is not the same as it being “lost.” Also, Hebrew manuscripts that predate the Greek translations HAVE been found ^_^.

In Israel. In Hebrew. Because Jews wrote them.

sorekbekarmi-deactivated2022051

@infinitywithoutparallel oh hang on - I misunderstood your comment. My bad!

You’re asking whether we can accurately read ancient Hebrew, because the Hebrew language died and was reconstructed, and so, can we REALLY read ancient texts in Hebrew accurately if our modern Hebrew is a reconstruction. Which is a good and interesting question.

So, Hebrew is a language, and languages evolve over time. As a speaker of modern day English, you wouldn’t be able to read Chauscer in Middle English, and you wouldn’t be able to read Beowulf in Old English. It’s changed too much, because of all the invasions (viking invasions, norman invasion, etc) and because of the influence of Latin as the language of science. However, Hebrew did NOT change that much, in part BECAUSE it “died.”

When we say a language is dead, that doesn’t mean no one can speak, read, or write that language. It means no new words are being added to it, and it has no more native speakers for whom it is their first language. We actually can fluently speak and write many “dead” languages today, most notably Latin, with total accuracy. Hebrew stopped being spoken by everyday people, but it was maintained as a language people had to learn because Jews have always kept the Tanakh in Hebrew and prayed in Hebrew. A language “dying” doesn’t make it lost, it’s more like it crystallizing. Dead languages preserve BETTER because they aren’t changing constantly.

When Hebrew was revived as a living language, it DID undergo some small changes.

We now use SVO sentence order, not the classical SOV. So, what used to be “I to the store went” in classical Hebrew, we would now just say “I went to the store.”

A lot of words got added to the language to describe the things that now existed in the world but not in the Hebrew language, like computer. These mostly have roots in the Hebrew language - we call a computer a machshev, a “thinker,” from the root word for to think. Some though, are loan words, like balagan, which comes from Russian and means “a big mess.”

We less often use pronoun endings, because we now have a word that implies possession. So instead of saying “chatuli” for “my cat” we would more likely say “chatul sheli.” Not always though! Pronoun endings are still perfectly valid grammar.

We use a different construction for possessives. Classical Hebrew uses a construction like this: “chatul Matan” would mean “Matan’s cat.” However, we now have a word for “of” so we would more commonly say “chatul shel Matan.” However, again, both are valid and still used. And the word for of, shel, isn’t as old as the Torah, but it does start to appear in the later books written in the Tanakh.

There used to be two forms of the word “I,” ani and anochi. Now we mostly only say “ani.” Same for “we,” which used to be both anu and anachnu, and now we mostly only say “anachnu.”

Those are pretty much all the differences in grammar. As you can imagine, it’s very easy for modern Hebrews speakers to read older writings with those more formal grammar styles! Easier than for us to read Shakespeare, actually.

There’s a few other considerations though.

Hebrew is now written using a script called ketav ashurit, which developed during the exile in Babylon. Before that, a more angular style called ketav Ivrit was used (and is still used by Samaritans). We have other scripts too, like cursive and Rashi script. However, unlike the development of different scripts for English, each letter directly corresponds to an ancient one exactly. Think of them as different fonts. Most Jews don’t read ketav Ivrit today, but many can, and it’s not hard to learn.

The spellings of some words changed VERY slightly from the ancient to the modern day. Mostly, we added extra ו and י letters to some words, to represent o and i sounds that were already there. Again, unlike English, where spelling was a free for all, these are VERY slight changes, and it’s easy to read them either way.

We aren’t EXACTLY sure about the pronunciation of ANCIENT Hebrew. However, by comparing multiple surviving accents and dialects of Hebrew with what we know about other semetic languages like Amharic, Aramaic, and Arabic, we can make very educated guesses. None of this would effect meaning at all! Just the way it sounds.

There are a FEW very specific nouns in the Torah that we aren’t exactly sure what they mean, because even by the Septuagint was translated people had stopped using those words. We can usually tell from context what kind of word they are - for example, we can’t be exactly sure what birds are being listed as unkosher, or what stones were in the High Priest’s breastplate. But we have very educated guesses from context, preserved in the Talmud.

So, TL;DR - Hebrew HAS changed some over the years, but actually comparatively very slightly. A modern Hebrew speaker can read and understand ancient Hebrew with no difficulty. It is the same language, with less differences between Ancient and Modern Hebrew over a span of 5,000 years, than between sixteen and twenty-first century English, a mere 500.

penrosesun

Also worth noting that, even aside from the issue of whether Hebrew is still Hebrew, Jews also just have older, better translations of the Tanakh as well. The Vulgate is a really bad translation. So is the King James Bible. And to be clear, I’m not just talking “some of the nuance is lost” levels bad — I’m talking “I don’t know what this idiom means, so I’m just going to say it means ‘had horns growing out of his head’ because that sounds like a thing that’s probably true about Jews” levels of bad.

If your Hebrew isn’t up to snuff and you absolutely have to use a translation, the Targum Onkelos, which is in Aramaic (the former lingua franca of the region) is a far superior translation, and predates the vulgate by a whooping two centuries. You want to bet that 2nd century translators from the region who were still themselves speaking Biblical Hebrew on the regular knew a little more about it than some rando named Jerome who lived in Croatia a couple hundred years later?

To be clear, this is a symptom of a much larger cultural problem, and that’s the routine dismissal of non-Christian cultural authorities on their own texts and traditions by Christians. It doesn’t always look like white colonizers telling First Nations that they don’t know how to farm or do medicine — sometimes it looks like online cultural Christians telling Jews that “they’re fairly sure” that Jews don’t have the linguistic background to properly understand their own holy texts. But fundamentally, it’s the same phenomenon, and it’s bad for the same reasons.

fenkko

i live in new england and the winters are pretty cold, so back in middle school my friends would use me as a heatpack while waiting for the bus.

huddling like a pack of penguins..

beekugou

(⊃｡•́‿•̀｡)⊃ karasuno being karasuno

whiskerteeth

Guys,

DYNAMIGHT

Is not just Bakugou being a lame fanboy or whatever everyone is saying.

Bakugou has this everlasting guilt about being the cause of ending All Mights career. Plus he had this jealousy about Deku being chosen by his idol. This is his way of paying homage to his childhood hero but also a way of keeping his hero’s legacy alive in his own way.

People can never know that Deku is All Mights legacy. But at least the name won’t fully be dying out. This is Bakugou’s way of repaying him while also keeping to his original ideas and fitting his quirk.