Ivrit

[cellio]

My printer is currently holding hostage half a sheet of mangled paper, and the manual's instructions for clearing jams presume that (1) the "release the grip, darnit" button works and (2) you have access to enough paper to grab hold. I hope this doesn't involve a screwdriver...

But hey, at least one of my appliances is working, so here's another attempt to communicate little nothings in a foreign language.



(That's a thumbnail; click for a larger copy that more closely resembles the size at which I wrote it...)

Comments

[ichur72.livejournal.com]

Thought of something else that I meant to write but ditzed out on. (Hard to think about grammar and hold a squirmy toddler at the same time.)

I think you can get by without a subject more easily in past* and future tenses because in those tenses, the conjugation actually makes it clear what the subject is, rather than just stating number and gender.

* This is more true of three-letter roots than two-letter roots because the masculine singular conjugation for present tense (e.g., hu shar, "he sings") is the same as the third-person masculine singular conjugation (e.g., hu shar, "he sang").

[cellio]

Thanks for the feedback. I had been thinking that "shar" was unambiguous for number/gender, and it is in the past tense (what I meant) -- what I failed to notice is that it takes exactly the same form in past and present, so the tense itself is ambiguous!