Source- http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-4482887,00.html Translated- http://translate.google.com/transla....il/articles/0,7340,L-4482887,00.html&act=url I must say the translation is funny but you can watch the video as well.
At first the video would not play, then I tried reading that translation, now my hangover is even worse and I don't care about Israel. This is how wars start.
Hebrew looks like its actually upside down. I feel dizzy because my mind is trying to orient it in a different direction.
It is a common mistake to say that hebrew is in the wrong direction RTL (Right to Left) while in fact any language that is written LTR (Left to Right) is the wrong one. Why? In the past languges were RTL include english (or any other Latin). This all changed when the print came to the world, people noticed that when you write RTL you get color on your fingers so to avoid that they changed the direction.
Most early languages were boustrophedon (egyptian and greek for example, changes with each line like a snake), latin and its derivatives are left to right because that's what ancient greek settled on.
Thats not what I meant. I can't read it to discern whether or not its right to left or left to right. the words just look upside down.
Here is a fact- Hebrew was a dead language until 100 years ago. Only few knew how to read the bible. none were talking it. When Jews left Europe and settled back in Israel they decided to try and re-live this language. The today Hebrew is modern compare to the bible one. thx for listening
Not strictly BB, but interesting. I was really surprised, when visiting a museum (in a synagogue) in Prague, that Hebrew had been used to write books on mathematics and geometry 300-400 years ago. Somebody must have read them too?? Secondly, I think RTL was the comfortable direction to write as long as the writing was in carving to stone etc., utilizing both hands. For a right handed person the left arm would obstruct viewing of the text while writing.
Talking about BB, Casspi did not have a great game against the Cavs as I had hoped. He scored his average with 9pts and 3 rebounds, but he had many chances to go double digit. He obviously did not anticipate that Harden's great pass for alley oop, which was truly a pity. Casspi is always less sharp and more nervous in home games. He's afraid of the home audience. I hope he learns to handle it before the playoffs. Before they travel to Israel, he and Dwight can work on that.
