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• Hava Nagila (Score:2)

  by ziggy (25)

  ( Hava nagíla * 3 | Vénis mekhá. ) * 2

  Not quite. Vénismekhá should be one word, as in "and let us be happy":

  Smecha, as in the root for happy;
  nismecha as in the passive verb "let us be happy";
  v'«mumble» as in the prefix "and mumble".

  Hebrew has a lot of words where you string together a slew of prefixes and suffixes to a simple three-letter root to make something nearly unpronouncable, yet rather precise. (And it's much worse with biblical hebrew.)
  • Re:Hava Nagila (Score:2)

    by jhi (318)

    > Hebrew has a lot of words where you string together a slew of prefixes and suffixes to a simple three-letter root to make something nearly unpronouncable, yet rather precise.
    
    Hey, that sounds a lot like Finnish :-) Though Finnish uses suffixes much more than prefixes.
    And tacking on the suffixes can (and most often does) mutate the root.
    
    
    • Re:Hava Nagila (Score:2)

      by ziggy (25)

      Hey, that sounds a lot like Finnish :-) Though Finnish uses suffixes much more than prefixes. And tacking on the suffixes can (and most often does) mutate the root.

      Hey, maybe the Finns are the mythical 13th lost tribe of Israel. :-)

      Hebrew doesn't use much in the way of prefixes. The few that are used are generally conjunctions or prepositions: the, and, with, in, to, from. Possessives are suffixes, as are most artifacts of verb conjugation. There are a few prefix/infix orthographic changes, but s
    • Re:Hava Nagila (Score:2)

      by jhi (318)

      Since we saw Hebrew, let me try some Finnish sample... hmm... translation for "(not) even in my wildest dreams" would be "hurjimmissa kuvitelmissanikaan":

      hurja - wild
      hurjin - wildest
      hurjimmissa - the 2nd -i is plural, and the -ssa is the "in"

      kuva - picture, image
      kuvitella - imagine
      kuvitelma - dream
      kuvitelmissa - again, -i is plural and -ssa is the "in"
      kuvitelmissani - and -ni we already went through
      kuvitelmissanikaan - the -kaan is the "(not) even", kind of

      So... wild-superlative-plural-in image
• Carrots (Score:2)

  by djberg96 (2603)

  * That carrots are a fun snack, more addictive than potato chips.

  Oh, don't I know it. If I eat too many carrots, I get a stomach ache that can last for days.