Are there any Germanicists on here who could tell me about the Middle High German descendant of Proto-West Germanic *wer "male human" and the ways in which it was used? Wiktionary has it listed as existing but not with its own page and that's about as far as I got just looking things up on my phone.

Yes, but this is the equivalent of "yeneh cancer"

Why did the writers of the world allow one linguist to be named Alan Prince after there was already one named Ellen Prince.

Ok I need advice on what dialect of Yiddish from my family I should use. On the one hand 5/8 of my great-grandparents had a Litvish dialect, while only 3 had a Podolian dialect. On the other hand, the Podolian dialect(s) would have been more similar to each other than the Litvish dialect(s).

so is Picard S3 just the show that some of the people involved wanted to make originally? I wasn't paying any attention when it was first releasing, but I reentered a star trek phase and have been watching it, and like this is just a different show they realized they had to connect somehow, yeah?

Boss Nass arrives at the Met Gala

Something I've noticed in recent years is that fewer and fewer Jewish families are eating noodles with cottage cheese 😔

likely place for them to meet

Are these gentlemen aware that the "Old Testament" is indeed sacred scripture to Christians?

the fact that he’s using it for propaganda makes me regret ever painting this

the thing i actually want a total war mod for LoTR to have the guts to do is to be set like 500 to 1000 years before LoTR.

good day to be a KDE guy

fascinating to learn the creator of the GNOME project is either very stupid or an antisemite (or both)

CALLING ALL SINGERS OF THE PIYUT KNOWN AS ELIYAHU HANAVI: 1. Do you include בימינו after במהרה? 2. What is your hashkafic background? 3. Have you heard the opposite version of what you do?

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this is kind of the problem of doing this kind of project today instead of even 20 years ago, the dialect feature I want to look at has almost gone extinct in terms of native speakers, but that partially just makes me more interested in it (+I like diachronic stuff in general, so that doesn't help)

If there are any speakers of a tote-mome Yiddish (preferably with a dialect from near the historical podolian-bessarabian border, but any locale is ok) on here who see this post and would be okay answering linguistic questions about their Yiddish dialect for a project I am doing, please reach out.

does anyone (i.e. @pymundgenealogy.bsky.social) know if at some point in the 1910s-50s the name Lorne shifted to being mostly Jewish in Canada? I ask because every Canadian Lorne I can think of is from around this time and Jewish (one is my cousin), and obviously similar things happened in the US

Average Bsky poster: "We must inaugurate a Second Reconstruction with blood and fire." Average Democratic politician: "We are in a war for the Republic, which is why I propose a 23.7% tax cut." Average liberal columnist: "For too long the transgenders have blocked research into the racial IQ gap."

The thing with AIPAC especially is at the point where one of, if not my most politically engaged gentile friend was under the impression that because Biss had been endorsed by and had donations from JStreet that he was one of AIPAC's preferred candidates. (1/2)

Question for the scholars: what's the significance of bulls for Northern Israelite religion?

you know, i am actually quite sympathetic to jewish inhabitants of israel/palestine wanting to live *there* specifically, regardless of where their ancestors are from. i just dont think they get to select who is enfranchised in order to maintain a particular ethnic composition of that state

Now is an excellent time for political housekeeping. Anyone on the left who’s calling Mamdani a Zionist over his criticism of Abulhawa is an antisemite who used Israel as a fig leaf for their bigotry and needs to be excised from the movement to get it back on track.

me when the president I work for named Jed Bartlett's daughter is being harassed and I have to get involved (alert the secret service)

had a vision: Oy oy oy belts, my various belts. They hold up my pants That are slightly too Loose around my waist. Oy oy oy belts, my various belts. No thanks to the suspenders, I'll stick with my belts for now.

Ok I think I know the answer to this, but I could not confirm it after searching the internet for a bit so I am coming to bluesky. In the weekday amidah, does nusach belz say דעה בינה והשכל or חכמה בינה ודעת? My assumption is the first, but the second could be used as a deviation from ashkenaz.

Not to be a bitch but after watching this video I have concluded this bird seems dumb as hell. Don’t dig around in your own torso, pull out one of your own feathers, drop it, and then look at ME like “What happened.” Like do we NEED a tall duck?

I just read a very strange article by someone arguing some things about Hebrew (and linguistics) that to me range from pointless to pretty much insane, some are listed here with my rating from 1-10 on that scale, and then expanded upon later in the thread.

getting in on this weird debate from today for just a moment to point out that we actually are aware of that, because this longing is not a form of nostalgia (which is unproductive in all its forms), it's a hope for the betterment of society so that we can all live in the version we wish existed.

Sort of ignoring the current table flipping discussion, I want to talk more broadly about Xtian theological attitudes towards things, especially when it comes to what they "inherited" from Judaism in one way or another. My overall opinion is that we let the Xtians have their own thing.

Every time I'm on this app (among others) for long enough I become increasingly worried about the sheer amount of people who are either incapable of reading, or refusing to read the things that they respond to. And that doesn't get into those who are being willfully obtuse for one reason or another.

pretty sure that that baby's family went to Egypt because they couldn't find a closer Chinese restaurant

I was trying to translate the line "with two cats in the yard, life used to be so hard" from the song "Our House" into Yiddish, the best I could come up with was "מיט קעצלעך אין גאָרטן, לעבן האָט נישט געהאַט טאָרטן" in no small part because I couldn't come up with many rhymes for היוף or גאָרטן that work

new favorite thing to (annoy? serenade?) my family and friends is singing al hanisim in a podolian dialect and really exaggerating the no ה and the tote-mome lushn as much as possible.

My friend found an insane YouTube channel the other day called Joker Box, and I can't stop thinking about this screenshot he sent me. It seems as though his whole deal is doing impressions of Heath Ledger's Joker and spreading conspiracy theories also in a Joker impression.

Panda Express implies the existence of Panda Local and Panda Late Night trains

A man once asked the Lubavitcher Rebbe whether he should continue his New York Times subscription. The Rebbe thought for a moment and simply said, as long as Jamelle Bouie is there.

Are there alternate versions of Khanike, Oy Khanike that don't include the dialectal rhyme of שיינער and אַזוינער? Did people just not sing it not in litvish dialect, or if they did they just ignored the rhyme?

Hilkhot Y’mei Vam-Megiddo הִלְכוֹת יְמֵי וַם־מְגִדּוֹ 1) The practice of ום־מגידו (in English: Whamageddon) was taken as an obligation by the Jewish people during the era of the Mad Emperor רֵיגָנְטִיוֹכוּס, as a commemoration of the suffering that secular Christmas music has brought upon the Jewish people.

Nobody's ready for the real discourse: if brad lander had won the election he'd implement "halakha law"

I've come to study the ways of will stancil

If you haven't... read the "description of applicant" section carefully commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gr...

quick (?) question for Yiddishists and/or hasidim and/or historians of hasidim: did the Lubavitcher Rebbe adopt a litvish dialect later in life or did the Ukrainian Schneersons retain litvish pronunciation despite being in Ukraine (and were able to enforce it for the children)?

Khazad theory Is this something

bro is digging too deep and too greedily in his ear

today I can at least be happy for sandy koufax and his band of merry men

The Blue Jays can still win if Mike Pence has the courage to do the right thing.

is this considered a hostile act by the Assyrian Church of the East towards the Catholic Church?