Shorts

Title:	Shorts
Date:	July 17, 2008 12:34 PM
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Best sight while riding yesterday: another bicyclist carrying a wooden crutch sticking out the back.

I was invited to a bat mitzvah (that I can't attend; previous engagement). The invitation had many editing faux pas, but the thing that really got to me was "H-shem". I know that Jews avoid using the name of the Diety casually, and some go so far as to put a hyphen or @ in the English three-letter word that starts with g and ends with d, but the whole point of "Hashem" (lit. "The Name") is that it is in no way considered to be an actual Name.

Fruit flies annoy me. The homemade cider-vinegar-plus-dish-soap trap is working well, but not fast enough!

Best people time yesterday: seeing my neice and nephew interacting.

I have floors in every room of my apartment! Who knew? :-)

Must to find breakfast. Cleaning is useful, but food is necessary.

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Author:	scholargipsy
Date:	July 17, 2008 11:07 PM (UTC)
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I know that Jews avoid using the name of the Diety casually

Is the Diety the qabbalistic emanation that governs kosher laws?

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Author:	magid
Date:	July 18, 2008 1:02 AM (UTC)
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*facepalm*
I am so embarrassed...

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Author:	scholargipsy
Date:	July 18, 2008 1:10 AM (UTC)
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Sorry. I figured a punstress such as yourself wouldn't mind. :)

By the way, sorry for the sacrilege. My post should have read "Is the D--ty the qabbalistic emanation that governs kosher laws?"

(There's a vigorous halachic debate at present over whether the "y" at the end of "D--ty" should also be replaced by a hyphen, since even though it isn't technically a vowel, it's functioning as one. Not since the bloody and bitter fourteenth-century Sephardim/Ashkenazim diphthong wars has the Jewish community been so riven by matters of orthography.

But you knew that already.)

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Author:	magid
Date:	July 18, 2008 1:21 AM (UTC)
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Totally didn't mind. I know why I got it wrong, too: was thinking about pronunciation rather than (Latin) derivation, and not thinking too clearly that that.

(And while the fourteenth-century Sephardi/Ashkenazi diphthong wars were extremely violent, the attrition through the similarly split opinions on glottal stops may well rival them in actual casualties.)

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Author:	scholargipsy
Date:	July 18, 2008 1:30 AM (UTC)
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(And while the fourteenth-century Sephardi/Ashkenazi diphthong wars were extremely violent, the attrition through the similarly split opinions on glottal stops may well rival them in actual casualties.)

Sadly, all too true. And probably the best hypothesis for the surprisingly low number of Gaelic Jews remaining in the Scottish Highlands today. It's hard to believe that John O'Groats was once considered the Jerusalem of the North. Of course, in those days it was better known by its Hebrew name, Yôḥānnāno shel Kasha.

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Author:	magid
Date:	July 18, 2008 12:35 PM (UTC)
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*bows to the master*

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Author:	tapuz
Date:	July 18, 2008 3:11 AM (UTC)
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snarf!

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