Comment Re:It IS just good business (Score 1) 79
Borrowing writing systems is common and does not mean that the languages are at all related.
And besides, going off on a tangent about how languages are related is a healthy sign, shows curiosity and an interest in wanting to understand things for its own sake --
But if any of this addresses the most flagrant abuse of the human ractiocinative apparatus in the Parent post, it showed up way below my current threshold, which I somehow doubt.
Sorry for not scrambling to get the Exact Wording -- feel free to interject. But wasn't the guy's basic argument about Microsoft Office's lack of right-to-left Hebrew support for the Mac OS X . . . wasn't it that you could use German, which is a lot like Yiddish, which is related to Hebrew?
Edifying speculations ensue. I will just add that my father told me that he was once sight-seeing at wherever the place is you can see the Hagia Sophia from across the water in Istambul. He ran into another sightseer, a European, and reports thst the two gentleman conversed for about fifteen minutes before either of them realized that my father was speaking Yiddish and the other fellow was speaking a sort of Bavarian dialect of Plattedeutsch (whichever one is the opposite of Hochdeutsch.)
But that might be to be expected, since the conversation had very little to do with Jewish religious practice, which is where the lion's share of the Hebrew vocabulary enters into the basically Low Germanic syntax and grammer of Yiddish.
No, what amazed me about This Dude's argument was . . .
Since Hebrew and Yiddish, whatever their structural kinship, share an Alphabet and are both written Right to Left, HOW DOES SUBSTITUTING YIDDISH FOR HEBREW SOLVE THE MICROSOFT-MAC OS OFFICE LACK OF SUPPORT FOR HEBREW RIGHT-TO-LEFT WORDPROCESSING?
Oh, yeah, it doesn't.
Om Shalom,.
Reshrabbi {: )}=
And besides, going off on a tangent about how languages are related is a healthy sign, shows curiosity and an interest in wanting to understand things for its own sake --
But if any of this addresses the most flagrant abuse of the human ractiocinative apparatus in the Parent post, it showed up way below my current threshold, which I somehow doubt.
Sorry for not scrambling to get the Exact Wording -- feel free to interject. But wasn't the guy's basic argument about Microsoft Office's lack of right-to-left Hebrew support for the Mac OS X . . . wasn't it that you could use German, which is a lot like Yiddish, which is related to Hebrew?
Edifying speculations ensue. I will just add that my father told me that he was once sight-seeing at wherever the place is you can see the Hagia Sophia from across the water in Istambul. He ran into another sightseer, a European, and reports thst the two gentleman conversed for about fifteen minutes before either of them realized that my father was speaking Yiddish and the other fellow was speaking a sort of Bavarian dialect of Plattedeutsch (whichever one is the opposite of Hochdeutsch.)
But that might be to be expected, since the conversation had very little to do with Jewish religious practice, which is where the lion's share of the Hebrew vocabulary enters into the basically Low Germanic syntax and grammer of Yiddish.
No, what amazed me about This Dude's argument was . . .
Since Hebrew and Yiddish, whatever their structural kinship, share an Alphabet and are both written Right to Left, HOW DOES SUBSTITUTING YIDDISH FOR HEBREW SOLVE THE MICROSOFT-MAC OS OFFICE LACK OF SUPPORT FOR HEBREW RIGHT-TO-LEFT WORDPROCESSING?
Oh, yeah, it doesn't.
Om Shalom,.
Reshrabbi {: )}=
