On Wednesday 14 Apr 2010 12:00:43 sawyer x wrote: > On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 11:09 AM, Shlomi Fish <[email protected]> wrote: > > Romanisation (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanization ) is an > > imperialistic practice and we must not succumb to it. We should write the > > date as "ז' באייר" using the Hebrew alphabet exclusively. ;-) > > You win best reply! >
Yes, but I haven't finished yet. The contemporary names for the Hebrew months are Pagan, for example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iyar is: <<< (Hebrew: אִייָר or אִיָּר, Standard Iyyar Tiberian ʾIyyār ; from Akkadian ayyaru, meaning "Rosette; blossom"... The name is Babylonian in origin. >>> (And Tamuz is the name of a Phoenician god who is akin to the Egyptian Ossiris.) As a result, we should use the old Biblican numerical names of the months and call "Iyar" "The Eighth month" if we start from Tishrey or "The Second Month" if we start from Nissan and say that "Zayin in Iyar" is "Hayom hashvi3i bahodesh hasheni" or "Hayom hashvi3i bahodesh hashmini.". ;-) (I'm using the evil transliteration to Latin out of laziness but I'm consistently inconsistent.) And we should also revert to the old Phoenician / Kna'anite alphabet which was originally used for writing Hebrew instead of the contemporary Hebrew alphabet that is derived from the Aramaic transformation of it... (There are actually characters in it in Unicode). Oh well. At least there's some activity on the list. > So I guess Gabor will have to give this talk at Rehovot.pm too. :) He is also welcome to give it in the Tel Aviv Open Source club (which includes TelAviv.pm ). To avoid bigotry we will coordinate everything using the Julian day - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_day . ;-) Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Original Riddles - http://www.shlomifish.org/puzzles/ Deletionists delete Wikipedia articles that they consider lame. Chuck Norris deletes deletionists whom he considers lame. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . _______________________________________________ Perl mailing list [email protected] http://mail.perl.org.il/mailman/listinfo/perl
