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heck, the hebrew verb for "to roll" is most likely a gosh dang onomatopoeia!! like,,,, dude!! iconicity in language is all over the place and all around us and it's friggin awesome!!!

israeli sign language: you can sign climbing a tree by one hand signing "tree", a sign that conveniently kinda looks like a tree, and having the other hand go up next to/on top of the other. when the story tells about coming back down, the hand that climbed up now goes back down

hebrew: if i'm telling a story about climbing a tree, i will increase my pitch to signify going up. when the story tells about coming back down, i'll decrease my pitch to signify going down

the last 20 years had a bunch of research about various types of iconicity in spoken language. but even without knowing that! i speak*/hear languages! i can tell i/others do things that linguists used to say don't ever happen!

1900s generativists just... ignored a lot of stuff,, kinda, and that legacy stuck

so the books all like "signed languages do this thing! and no spoken language does anything like it!" meanwhile i can think of 3 example sentences in hebrew that do the exact thing...

the linguistics book i'm reading is from like 20 years ago or so, and every once in a while it has a spoken language take that i look at and go "yeah we actually know now that this is not exactly that way" 🙃

hmm when shit hits the fan on a global scale, would i rather be living in a medium sized city in backwater proxy-war-territory (israel)? or in a big city in one of the main participating countries (probably in europe, or even less likely,, the us)?

also this is probably all going to be extremely useful if i ever learn other sign languages too because apparently most of them do these things

reading the book about isl, im starting to finally realize what a lot of grammatical and phonological features that confused me before actually ARE! and what the RULES are for them!! in a way that makes my autistic brain actually UNDERSTAND something!!!!!!

princess and the pea basically describes a pre-modern-psychiatry autism assessment

you know how german speakers always maintain a list in their head, of who they need to address with <du> or <Sie> (regular word for 'you' vs special word for 'you' that feels a bit like how adding "ma'am/sir" feels)

well,,,, i seem to have inadvertently created a similar situation for myself in hebrew: when i text with someone, i need to remember if i text with them using he/him grammatical gender or using mixed s.he/him.er grammatical gender 🙃

update: it's working again, false alarm, you can keep opening more tabs everyone

hmm mobile firefox doesn't want to start up anymore. have i finally discovered how many tabs is too many tabs?

hmmm how many bars of white chocolate will i need to eat to approximate a full day's minimum caloric intake...........

we may call them abled,, but they're definitely not able to accommodate anyone

you know those ENTP-J/ETCS-3/FAT-32 personality type acronyms people put on dating profiles? i'm considering putting "AUTI-ST personality type" on mine and if anyone gets the joke, i'll marry them

one good thing about living in tlv:

it's 10pm and the streets feel alive, and i can actually find food, and i won't be the only person at a food place that's just about to close

been thinking about this poem a lot lately

i looked around for an english translation but none of the ones i found actually kept the original rhyming pattern, so i tried to make one myself that mostly does 😳

I could only ever speak for myself, by Rachel Bluwstein

I could only ever speak for myself
My world is as narrow as that of the ant,
Even my cargo I carried like her,
Too much and too heavy for shoulders so scant.

And on my way — as her way to the top —
A road lined with pain and a road made of toil,
The hands of the giants, malicious, don't stop,
Such that every advancement I make they may foil.

All my attempts were mocked and made tearful
By hands of the giants and trembling frights.
Why have you beckoned, O beaches of wonder?
Why did you lie to me, O distant lights?

רַק עַל עַצְמִי לְסַפֵּר יָדַעְתִּי
צַר עוֹלָמִי כְּעוֹלַם נְמָלָה,
גַּם מַשָּׂאִי עָמַסְתִּי כָּמוֹהָ
רַב וְכָבֵד מִכְּתֵפִי הַדַּלָּה.

גַּם אֶת דַרְכִּי – כְּדַרְכָּהּ אֶל צַמֶּרֶת –
דֶּרֶך מַכְאוֹב וְדֶרֶךְ עָמָל,
יַד עֲנָקִים זְדוֹנָה וּבוֹטַחַת,
יַד מִתְבַּדַּחַת שָׂמָה לְאַל.

כָּל אָרְחוֹתַי הִלִּיז וְהִדְמִיע
פַּחַד טָמִיר מִיַּד עֲנָקִים.
לָמָּה קְרָאתֶם לִי, חוֹפֵי הַפֶּלֶא?
לָמָה כְּזַבְתֶּם, אוֹרוֹת רְחוֹקִים?

aaaaa wtffffff there's a town in northern israel whose sign is the same as the sign for "mass shooting" because of a terror attack in the 1970s

one of the only survivors was a baby, because their mother hid them. they stayed quiet the entire time and weren't found until later, alive and well, and soon discovered to be deaf.

this name origin story is just...... so quintessentially israeli