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What about starting a sentence with “So …”? That’s a common trend these days.
Aside from the English grammatical atrocity, can you provide a Torah or Talmud source that defines the word “girl”?
By Jews at age 12.
Now is that proper English?
to deliberately sound crude or vulgar
You’re a proponent of split infinitives?
Smoetmies spllenig is worng, but you can undresatnd it if all the ltteres are trhee, and the frist and lsat ltteres of the wrods are corecrt.
Would anybody like to contribute to – or simply read – a topic that posts a daily bit of information about proper English. For many posters, English is a second – or third, fourth or fifth – language, and it shows in the English mistakes they make in their posts. English is my first language. I learned more Yiddish from the Borscht Belt comedians on TV than from my parents and grandparents, and I can read a siddur and daven in Hebrew, but when I visit Israel, I cannot read a menu or the labels on the products in supermarkets.
The first sentence should end with a question mark rather than a period.
The fourth sentence is a run-on sentence and overuses commas.It’s like a modern day Gemara, and we’re wannabe Amoraim.
What gave you the idea to experiment adding a question mark at the end of the URL?
Asking questions is the basis of learning.
How many doctors does it take to treat a coronavirus patient? (Make up your own answer.)
Setting up your own web site isn’t difficult.
Is China our ally or our enemy? I can’t figure that out.
My source is from what other people were sending around
That’s always a reliable source of information.
Doesn’t gematria, like gezeirah shavah, require a teacher-to-student path from Moshe Rabbeinu’s time to be meaningful?
In the meantime, these two [others came by the marketplace]. [Elijah] came [again and] said to [R’ Beroka]: These, too, are destined for the World to Come. [R’ Beroka] went up to them, [and] said to them: ‘What do you do?’ They said to him: ‘We are comedians, [and] we go to cheer up those who are depressed. Additionally, whenever we see two people involved in a quarrel, we strive hard to make peace between them.’
Taanis 22
There’s nothing stopping you from reading the weekly parshios on your own.
If you hang up on yourself in the middle of a sentence, the other party will think it was accidental and not be offended.
Why is halachah a factor in this context?
The only way to stop this is to stay at home. Stay at home. Don’t go anywhere. Don’t touch anyone.
Good advice.
Permanently seal your doors and windows. Never go outside again. Even after Coronavirus is gone, the world will be full of other hazards.
The seasonal flu is too boring for the news outlets. They get tons more advertising clicks by publishing scary headlines about Coronavirus.
My personal plan was to stock up on Vodka. It doesn’t have as much alcohol as hand sanitizer or Isopropyl Alcohol, so I need lots of it.
The University of Virginia just announced that on-grounds classes are suspended “for the foreseeable future”. Students are encouraged to leave the university and stay home. Only online classes will be held.
What about giving a Shiur or Dvar Torah in Loshon Kodesh? The reason that was not done is because Loshon HaKodesh is very hard to use in a speaking manner – its much more suited to writing. Would you start a sentence with “hinei”?
It would be an interesting experiment to spend a month speaking nothing but Loshon Kodesh, possibly limiting it to actual verses from the Tanach.
My understanding is that if you drink water for pleasure, you say shehakol. But if you drink water simply to keep yourself hydrated, you don’t say a blessing.
Does the same logic apply to coffee? If you drink it for pleasure, you say shehakol, but if you drink it simply to stay awake, you don’t say a blessing?
About 50 years ago learned both COBOL and Fortran using mainframe computers with punchcards
The choices were much simpler then.
Punch cards were great. A stack of cards was a tangible result of your work. And old cards made good book marks for the computer manuals.Why is it different than wine which gets its own bracha?
Grapes are one of the Seven Species named in the Torah. Coffee beans are not.
R’Zeira – and some say R’Chanina bar Pappa – said: The halachah is not in accordance with R’Yehudah.
Berachos 40aIt depends on how many voters like sodomites and/or communists.
During the impeachment trial, one of the President’s defense team showed video snippets of Democrats calling for his impeachment shortly after the 2016 election. He hadn’t even done anything as President yet.
Shawl,white beard, brown skin tone, tall…location. Over the river…what else
Many people fit that description.
She should be lauded for symbolically showing what her political party is doing to the country. I’m surprised there haven’t been political cartoons with the speech transcript replaced with a map of the U.S.
The Super Bowl isn’t really football. It’s four hours of commercials with bits of football in between.
Why does it have to be banned, why can’t there be a trial stage to see how people will be affected (maybe big supermarkets should have the ban but the little Chinese food restaurants can still use bags) and see what people say
That would be really complicated to enforce. A ban that applies to all stores is simple.
What does the World Zionist Congress do? Does it have legal authority to control anything?
With the creation of the U.S. Space Force, maybe a draft will be needed to populate its ranks.
By the way, why aren’t the Equal Rights Amendment supporters demanding that women be included in the Selective Service registration?
It is cute when it runs after its tail.
When my cats were kittens, they would often wrestle. Sometimes one of them would become distracted by his own tail and start chasing it. Not a good strategy when you’re in a fight.
he needs to cripple the Democrats’ strongest probable candidate and to cripple the party
That’s negative campaigning. He should take the high road and continue to show why he should be the nation’s leader, and not get dragged down into the gutter tactics used by the leftists.
The time to worry is when the government becomes antisemitic, not the powerless fringe elements.
If it was suppressed, how do you know about it?
Nullify the contents of the garage in your mind, so that they no longer exist.
Make a list of things that you should do, but know that you won’t.
Freeze it. Then it’s easy to scrape off.
We may find out soon whether Iran has nukes.
The alleged Ukrainian/Russian collusion is a non-issue. Even if they did help the Republican party win the election, who cares? We owe them gratitude for saving our country.
I’m reading Benjamin Franklin’s autobiography. It’s actually fascinating. He talks a lot about his belief in G-d and support of religion, from the ethical perspective. He also discusses his systematic approach to improving his middos, which he calls “virtues”.