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Activity for Monica Cellio‭

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Edit Post #281120 Post edited:
fixed variable that crept in
2 months ago
Edit Post #279914 Post edited:
fixed variable that crept in
2 months ago
Edit Post #279927 Post edited:
fixed variable that crept in
2 months ago
Edit Post #288593 Post edited:
moving the contact link out of the footer (doesn't apply on other networks) and putting it here
3 months ago
Comment Post #292543 Thanks for asking the question. The network policy is a *default*, but as it says, communities are free to modify it in either direction, and this question gives this community a place to propose those changes.
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3 months ago
Edit Post #292045 Post edited:
fixed formatting problem that interfered with image example
5 months ago
Edit Post #292025 Post edited:
fixed duplicate title...
5 months ago
Edit Post #292025 Post edited:
replace generic slug with our network's policy
5 months ago
Edit Post #277064 Post edited:
10 months ago
Comment Post #288727 Sounds fine. If the community's preferences change in the future, we can make changes then.
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12 months ago
Comment Post #289901 One person I shared this link with suggested that it's a typo for "roach colony", which seems to fit with the passage you quoted. Maybe someone can check other editions of the book?
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about 1 year ago
Edit Post #277352 Post edited:
a while ago, but missed this update
over 1 year ago
Edit Post #289088 Initial revision over 1 year ago
Answer A: Mixed fonts within a sentence (and proposed fixes)
Markdown doesn't work, but HTML does. The HTML source for the following is taken from the question ("preferred solution"): This is a sentence with 中文 characters 日本語が分かりません
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over 1 year ago
Edit Post #288727 Initial revision over 1 year ago
Question Should posting on Meta affect reputation?
When we launched this community, we did not yet have the ability to set different reputation grants for different categories. We've had this for a while but we failed to follow up before now, sorry. Do you want us to change posts on Meta to not award rep for upvotes or subtract it for downvotes? ...
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over 1 year ago
Edit Post #287690 Post edited:
I don't think we need to see that by default.
almost 2 years ago
Edit Post #278773 Post edited:
finally fixed this -- sorry for the long wait!
about 2 years ago
Edit Post #286684 Initial revision over 2 years ago
Answer A: Tags are there(?) but no longer visible after edit
As noted in a comment, this is unfortunately a known issue. In this case, it looks like someone was able to restore the tag. Until we find and fix the bug, please feel free to ask for help if individual posts have wrong tags. Sorry about the inconvenience.
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over 2 years ago
Comment Post #286522 Another common case of your first bullet is for newborn children. "We just had a baby." / "Congratulations! Is it a boy or a girl?" That's completely normal in my experience (native USian speaker, midwest/northeast). I don't know enough to know which dialects that might not be normal in.
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over 2 years ago
Edit Post #284868 Question closed almost 3 years ago
Comment Post #285356 I'm surprised that this is a loan word (transliteration of the English word) in Hebrew, and that there wasn't already a native word with similar meaning. Is there but it's not used, or was this a new word when introduced?
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almost 3 years ago
Edit Post #279311 Nominated for promotion about 3 years ago
Edit Post #285034 Initial revision about 3 years ago
Question How can we grow this community?
Codidact's communities have a lot of great content that is helping people on the Internet. Our communities are small, though, and sustainable communities depend on having lots of active, engaged participants. The folks already here are doing good work; our challenge is to find more people like you ...
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about 3 years ago
Edit Post #284814 Post edited:
fixed link, added author
about 3 years ago
Edit Post #284814 Post edited:
Oh right; we have a "resources" category. Moving some things around...
about 3 years ago
Edit Post #284815 Initial revision about 3 years ago
Article Learning biblical Hebrew as a speaker of modern Hebrew
There are some key differences between modern and biblical Hebrew (and the idea of one "biblical Hebrew" also doesn't stand up to scrutiny). These differences are in both form/grammar and vocabulary. For the speaker of Modern Israeli Hebrew (MIH), reading Biblical Hebrew (BH) can be at times puzzli...
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about 3 years ago
Edit Post #284814 Initial revision about 3 years ago
Answer A: Resources for a speaker of Modern Hebrew to learn Biblical Hebrew?
I don't know if it counts as a study, but how about a relevant textbook? The book Biblical Hebrew for Students of Modern Israeli Hebrew by Marc Zvi Brettler looks like it will help you. It's used in the rabbinic program at Hebrew Union College and probably other places (though I only have first-h...
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about 3 years ago
Edit Post #284813 Initial revision about 3 years ago
Question Resources for a speaker of Modern Hebrew to learn Biblical Hebrew?
Re-asking a question I answered elsewhere: As a speaker of modern Hebrew I[^1], I can tell that some things have changed since the Hebrew of the bible -- some words I think I know just don't make sense. Are there any studies that compare the two languages, that would help people whose knowledge o...
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about 3 years ago
Comment Post #284423 Thanks! That's very interesting; I had failed to decouple *language* and *script* and hadn't heard of "Sephardic cursive" before. I imagine that a native German might have written similarly about Yiddish at some point; both it and Ladino seem (to this layperson) to be hybrids in terms of both words...
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about 3 years ago
Edit Post #284167 Initial revision over 3 years ago
Answer A: Does using plural form for singular object make sense?
There has been a tendency in English toward using singular "they" in the non-specific case, like "someone knocked on my door and they left a package". This is more common in speech than in writing, but becoming more common in both. People will usually understand what you meant. Some people will ex...
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over 3 years ago
Edit Post #283427 Initial revision over 3 years ago
Question What language is this (cursive) sample?
A recent post on Language Log includes this sample of an unidentified language: 13 lines of right-justified text, maybe a numbered list The article says this about the source: > This is from RG 84, General Correspondence of the American consulate in Tangier, Morocco. The dates of the stuff ...
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over 3 years ago
Comment Post #283069 The words in your first list are all *counting* nouns -- you have a planet or several planets, etc. The words in your second list are *mass* nouns; we can talk about "philosophy" or "psychology" or "science" or "education" as a collective thing. Now, mass nouns can also be counting nouns, if for ex...
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over 3 years ago
Comment Post #283363 I think somebody fixed it between when this was posted and when you and I saw it a couple minutes ago, @#53196.
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over 3 years ago
Edit Post #283363 Post edited:
and also added the topic tags
over 3 years ago
Comment Post #281780 Ah, thanks -- I didn't make the connection. Thanks for clarifying.
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over 3 years ago
Comment Post #281780 That's interesting about the Phonecian letter having a glottal stop. As I was taught (and this matches what I hear around me, but I am not a linguist and might have learned it wrong), the Hebrew ע‎ ('ayin) has a leading glottal stop, distinguishing it from ℵ which I was taught doesn't. Most people ...
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over 3 years ago
Edit Post #281770 Post edited:
over 3 years ago
Edit Post #281770 Initial revision over 3 years ago
Answer A: What sound did the letter ℵ encode in ancient Hebrew, and why did it morph into the greek vowel Α?
ℵ (aleph) is a consonant in Hebrew, not a vowel. Like other consonants, it can carry a vowel.[^1] You'll see the vowel markers (nikud) in "pointed" Hebrew, but someone who is fluent in Hebrew doesn't need them for comprehension so they're left out of most texts other than children's/learners' texts...
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over 3 years ago
Comment Post #281502 Sometimes questions fit more than one community. We see that with Math/Physics sometimes, for example. This question could be asked either here or on Judaism. Here it will attract linguistics-based answers; there it would attract religion-based ones. Both are valid approaches.
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over 3 years ago
Comment Post #281018 Thank you for this analysis! I hadn't realized this syntax also showed up in the US midwest. I also never thought to ask whether the word ("washed" in this case) was verbal or adjectival. (I *love* that article title by Dr. Edelstein.)
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almost 4 years ago
Comment Post #280972 I don't know enough about linguistics to know if this rises to the level of a *dialect*, but that tag exists and "regional-variations" doesn't, so I started with "dialects".
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almost 4 years ago