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Oh man, as a non native English speaker, this title was the hardest to ever read! I had trouble figuring out what is was about. Caching? Caching of cryptocurren
by koonsolo 7y ago
Oh man, as a non native English speaker, this title was the hardest to ever read! I had trouble figuring out what is was about. Caching? Caching of cryptocurrency? Some Jewish cryptocurrency? Recipies? Jewish recipies stored in cryptocurrency? Dating? Dating for Jews? A recipe for dating, stored in cryptocurrency targeted at Jews? Jews dating during the inquisision?
And that was not even considering the Miami Kitchen.
- etaioinshrdlu 7y ago> A recipe for dating, stored in cryptocurrency targeted at Jews? I'm going to go build this!
- phs318u 7y agoNot specifically targeted at Jews... https://whooo.dating/ https://whooo.dating/
- BrandoElFollito 7y agoOh good, I was not the only one. I did not read the article or comments yet and still do not know what this is about so it will be a surprise. My guess: someone found, in a cache made in a kitchen in Miami, a book with Jewish recipes (food) written in an "encypted" way so that they stay secret. The recipes date back to 13th century. It sounds like the title of a Cluedo game.
- BrandoElFollito 7y agoI was 40% wrong but the read was interesting. The part about dishes being too eggy when done with today's eggs is a sign of times. I also read a bit recently about kushrut after listening on a Jewish radio in France a discussion about whether a Jew can have a coffee in a in a bar (in France). The dissecting of the various components of the act (coffee, water, milk, the kind of cup,...) was fascinating.
- ronenlh 7y ago"crypto" jewish means jews living in secrecy about their religion because of persecution.
- BrandoElFollito 7y agoYes, I found that out when reading the article. I never heard that expression.
- ferongr 7y agoI'm a non-native English speaker too, with only a B2 level certificate but I instantly got the context. You should diversify your reading material.
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- bad_user 7y agoThe problem is the context of Hacker News, as the meaning of words is often in context. People coming here expect to read stuff involving caching, cryptocurrency and dating and that's what they'll think of first :-)
- BiteCode_dev 7y agoI have very diverse reading sources and it took me a second as well. I don't think the harsh tone is necessary.
- jboogie77 7y agowow, aren't you cool....
- nkrisc 7y agoEven as a native English speaker, it's a very unusual combination of words and took me longer than usual to parse.
- INTPenis 7y agoSwede who has only been in London once here and the only thing that I don't understand is "Crypto-Jewish". A cache of items is a quite common word or phrase to use. Like cache of weapons, something you'd learn just by playhing modern video games. Or reading scifi. I assume crypto-jewish has something to do with mythical, as in cryptozoology.
- thaumasiotes 7y ago> I assume crypto-jewish has something to do with mythical, as in cryptozoology. The definition was already mentioned elsewhere in the comments -- crypto-Jews are (in the Inquisition context) Jews claiming to be Christians.
- eecc 7y agoAka as “marrano” (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marrano https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marrano) I’ve been told a telltale sign you might have such ancestry is having a surname named from a city.
- tpm 7y agoCrypto-Jews were Jews that could not identify as such because they would be persecuted. I think there is a very interesting museum of Crypto-Jews in Córdoba, Spain.
- azernik 7y ago"Crypto-" means "hidden" - the name "cryptozoology" was coined by people who think all of those mythical creatures actually exist and are just hiding/hidden from the rest of us.
- pvaldes 7y ago> this title was the hardest to ever read! A couple of commas, after recipes and inquisition, would easily solve the ambiguity
- jedimastert 7y agoNative speaker here, I had no idea what the title meant at all until I looked at the article. It just would not fit into my head. Kind of like a crash blossom or something.
- eru 7y agoI'm not a native speaker, but I found it easy to understand. (I haven't even opened the article yet, but I am fairly sure it's about people who are Jewish in secret.) It helps, if you are vaguely familiar with the history in question.
- arkades 7y agoI found the title easy to read, but then, I am familiar with non-technological uses of the word “cache,” what “crypto-Jewish” is, and how that directly ties into the inquisition. This is less a bad headline and more a mismatch between the audience’s knowledge level of Jewish history and the editor’s expectations. Then again, an Israeli readership’s average level of Jewish history knowledge is likely not the same as HN’s level of knowledge.
- tomphoolery 7y agoI rather like the term "Crypto-Jewish" as a means of describing myself (although I don't profess to be part of any faith whatsoever).