Category: languages
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macOS: how to show or hide Keyboard Viewer with a keyboard shortcut?
I like the the non-mousing approach best: Fn+Ctrl+F8.
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Capernaüm, Capharnaum, …
- https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Capharnaum#Latin – claims it as borrowed from Ancient Greek … from Biblical Hebrew meaning “Nahum’s village“
- https://www.bibleplaces.com/capernaum/
- https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/capharnaum
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capernaum – a (former fishing) village located on the northern shore of the Sea of Galilee – explains it as a word from Arabic and Hebrew meaning “Nahum’s village“
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capernaum_(film)
- https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8267604/plotsummary – claims it as meaning “chaos” in Arabic
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Kaddish originally written in Hebrew!?!
- https://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-5301143,00.html
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaddish#History_and_background :
Professor Yoel Elitzur … argues that the Kaddish was originally written in Hebrew, and later translated to Aramaic to be better understood by the masses. He notes that quotations from the Kaddish in the Talmud and Sifrei are in Hebrew, and that even today some of the words are Hebrew rather than Aramaic.
That’s quite an interesting and surprising point of view. And quite comprehensible and logical as well.
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prepositions in the English language: “I replaced my car *with* a newer model”, “compare”, …
The right preposition here is “with”, not “by”, which I am always tempted to use.
- https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/compare#Verb (transitive)
The right preposition here is “with”, but it can also be “to”.
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“artifact” or “artefact”?
- https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/artifact
- artifact — in American English
- artefact — in British and Australian English