potato literally translates to ground apple mermaid is sea virgin the word for orange (fruit) is a short for golden apple grenade and pomegranate is the same word there are four different ways to spell “et” and three of them have (different) meanings (which are pen, shovel and a grammar thing that does not have an english translation) boKER means cowboy but BOker means morning the word for cauliflower is a feminine version of the word for cabbage we have different words for a field of fruit, grains, other fruit (usually citrus) and a special word for olives/grapes we have words for each part of the vine and every single possible action in the process of making wine but the word for “cucumber” is from greek
Another meaning for “et” is a fancy word for time. Also the word ספר without punctuation marks has more than six meanings And every type of harvesting has a different word
I mean, Hebrew has tones of really really stupid stuff I totally agree
Buuuuuuuuuuuut
I think it’s a really cool language okay
The word for dog means “like a heart” I mean come on
Firefly is “night ember”
It is a lot more ‘cost effective’ than many other languages thanks to a magical thing called “Semitic root” and you can see how English books translated to Hebrew are significantly shorter and so saving paper and trees we all love trees right
It is so poetic it makes me wanna cry
The origin of most Hebrew words is not from another language (or from dead languages) so words often mean something literally (the word for “bike” can also mean “two wheels”)
It was affected by other languages during the years but unlike 90% of all languages its letters and almost everything about it doesn’t come from another language (like the way English Spanish French and others came from Latin) it is independent
It’s one of the most ancient languages in the whole wide world, we speak almost the same language as people from 5000 years ago, that is damn right incredible
It was dead for 2000 year but it was brought back to life by a mad linguist it’s basically a zombie language
It looks really cool okay אני מתכוונת תסתכלו על הדבר היפהפה הזה זה לא עושה לכם חשק לבכות
Please don’t talk smack about Hebrew I love it very much and I will protect it if I have to
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Look how sad he is
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“potato literally translates to ground apple” yes, which is a construction borrowed from French, in which the word for potato literally translates to ground apple (which made more sense when the French first coined the term, as “apple” was at the time a generic term for “fruit”)
“mermaid is sea virgin” my dude what do you think mermaid means in English? “mer” = Latin for sea, “maid” = “maiden” = “virgin” (and also just incidentally the more common term for mermaid in Hebrew means “sea daughter” or “sea girl” which, come on, that’s perfect)
“we have different words for a field of fruit, grains, other fruit (usually citrus) and a special word for olives/grapes” so like … orchard, field, grove, vineyard? different words for all those things? HOW ABSURD
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