Activity for Monica Cellio
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| Edit | Post #277064 |
Post edited: |
— | about 2 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288727 |
Sounds fine. If the community's preferences change in the future, we can make changes then. (more) |
— | 4 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? (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Edit | Post #277352 |
Post edited: a while ago, but missed this update |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289088 | Initial revision | — | 9 months 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 (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288727 | Initial revision | — | 10 months ago |
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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? ... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #287690 |
Post edited: I don't think we need to see that by default. |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #278773 |
Post edited: finally fixed this -- sorry for the long wait! |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #286684 | Initial revision | — | almost 2 years ago |
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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. (more) |
— | almost 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. (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #284868 | Question closed | — | about 2 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? (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279311 | Nominated for promotion | — | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #285034 | Initial revision | — | over 2 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 ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #284814 |
Post edited: fixed link, added author |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #284814 |
Post edited: Oh right; we have a "resources" category. Moving some things around... |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #284815 | Initial revision | — | over 2 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... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #284814 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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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... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #284813 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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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... (more) |
— | over 2 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... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #284167 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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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... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #283427 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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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 ... (more) |
— | over 2 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... (more) |
— | over 2 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. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Edit | Post #283363 |
Post edited: and also added the topic tags |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281780 |
Ah, thanks -- I didn't make the connection. Thanks for clarifying. (more) |
— | almost 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 ... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281770 |
Post edited: |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281770 | Initial revision | — | almost 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... (more) |
— | almost 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. (more) |
— | almost 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.) (more) |
— | about 3 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". (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280972 | Initial revision | — | about 3 years ago |
| Question | — |
What is the origin of the missing "to be" in sentences like "the car needs washed"? I grew up in western Pennsylvania (US), where constructs like "the car needs washed" are common. I was taught (yes, in schools in that region) that correct formal grammar requires "to be" in this case: 'the care needs to be washed", and this is what I understand to be normative. (It's certainly wha... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280383 |
@Moshi we can create the category on request -- need a name and a short description (the text that appears at the top of the posts list). Some other communities have "challenges" categories, so consider that but don't feel bound by it if the approach here is different. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280305 |
I disbelieve the checks explanation. It's just as easy to add numbers at the end as at the beginning. I don't know how checks were written historically, but when writing checks by hand in the US in my lifetime, we don't write the symbol at all -- there's a place to write the number and another to w... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280305 |
$ before but cents symbol after, for extra chaos. (I don't mean $0.99, but rather 99c (where that's the symbol, which I don't know how to add here). (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #280135 | Question closed | — | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280041 |
I don't think it's intentional; we probably just overlooked a check there in the notifications code. You don't get a notification if you comment on your own post, right? (Please comment here and let me know if you got a notification.) (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279224 |
Post edited: trivial edit to test something |
— | over 3 years ago |