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throwaway_vnkqd
7y ago
In Yiddish it would be something like "lux" as in "deluxe" or "bucks". In contemporary Israeli Hebrew, that vowel doesn't exist so it would be pronounced somewhere between the "ucks" in "buc
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throwaway_vnkqd
7y ago
In Hebrew the word for language (שפה) is also feminine. And apparently from this comment thread...in many languages that's the case.
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8y ago
I deleted my account over a year ago, and I periodically consider rejoining for a few reasons: a) My social life has suffered considerably. I've heard that if your friendships are so shallow that they vanish when you're not on fac