Ivrit

[cellio]

More writing practice:




Perhaps I should start doing these on lined paper, at least until I get better about regularizing size and slope.

Comments

[ichur72.livejournal.com]

Two weeks? That's exciting news!

A couple of thoughts: shavu`ah ("week") has an `ayin, not an alef, and it might be better in the last sentence to say bli targum rather than

[ichur72.livejournal.com]

rather than `im lo targum. (Don't know why LJ cut me off.)

[cellio]

Two weeks from tomorrow morning we fly out. Whee!

Thanks for the spelling correction. (Err, did I get my ims right? I'm forever confusing the one with the alef and the one with the 'ayin. I think I got them right. Homophones are hard. :-) )

Last sentence: thanks. I take it bli means "without"?

LJ only sort-of cut you off. You had a < that it didn't know how to render. (Or at least, that's what showed up in the emailed comment.)

[ichur72.livejournal.com]

Yes, bli does mean without.

I'm pretty sure you got your ims right. Those are confusing!

im vs im

[chaos-wrangler.livejournal.com]

I remember which is which based on the way the alef and ayin look (in script):

alef "im" - alef has two similar sized pieces, just like "if"
ayin "im" - ayin has one piece that looks (sorta) like 2 twisted together, which is a good visual for "with"

Re: im vs im

[cellio]

Thank you! That helps.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Have a wonderful trip! Have a nesiyah tovah!

I believe the future tense of "l'havin" (to understand) is "avin" (as in "ani lo avin [et] ha lashon"). "Evneh" (which you have there) is "I will build."

If that's "sefer torah" in the last paragraph, the spelling is samech-peh-heh (not sin), and I think your peh is upside down.

[cellio]

Thanks!

(Yeah, I meant "understand", not "build". I hope to eventually be good enough to spot those kinds of collisions -- I know "banah" and thus could infer "evneh", but just plain didn't notice the conflict.)

The samech is a typo (wordo); I was about to post a correction when I saw your comment. The peh is me incorrectly immitating the shape of the block letter in script -- so many of the letters do map logically that the ones that map anti-logically trip me up. :-)

[magid.livejournal.com]

I think "oolai" is aleph-vav-lamed-yod. (If not, it's an ayin instead of the aleph, but there's definitely one of those two there. If it weren't, it would look like an "and..." starting word, rather than a word itself.)

[cellio]

Oh, good point; that has to be wrong as I wrote it. Thanks!

[dr4b]

Your handwriting is a lot better than mine ever was in all my years of Hebrew school, if that helps at all. And I could never remember how to make half of those final-letters in cursive...

[cellio]

Tzadi sofit and peh sofit both look to me like practical jokes, or maybe things written by someone in the midst of a violent seizure. The only way I can remember which is which is thus: tzadi has a "t" sound, and it's the one with the horizontal stroke (like crossing a "t"). By process of elimination, the one that looks sort of like a treble clef on top of a lamed (if you don't think too hard about it) must be peh.