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Hero. The people have a right to privacy, and if the government is violating that, the people need to know.
I can’t believe this one was not mentioned yet.
It always bothers me when people say
“Brother-in-laws” and “sister-in-laws”
Instead of:
Brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law.
As you can imagine, that one drives me crazy, too.
I had a friend whose daughter became “of age.” She called the shadchan and told the woman all about her daughter. She told the shadchan her daughter was overweight, with a learning disability, and “different.”
The shadchan was so grateful for her honesty. She said, “You know, I’m going to remember your daughter. All the other girls sound alike.”
It didn’t take long before my friend’s daughter found her shidduch. In fact, she got married before some of the “better” girls who lived near her and were the same age.
In general, names are capitalized. However, a name is a personal thing, and if a person chooses not to capitalize his name, that is his prerogative. Just ask e.e. cummings.
Periods go inside the parentheses if there is a complete sentence inside the parentheses. If the parenthetical remark is part of a larger sentence, the period goes outside.
Interesting fact: Parentheses means a pair of those things. One is called a parenthesis.
Well, I’m not a teen, so I must be an old person. Unfortunately, I can’t afford to buy myself a rocking chair. So, if someone would be so kind, just ship it to the CR and I’ll have them forward it.
I wouldn’t want any more than 4 kids, partially due to costs associated with education, but also I’d like the ability to be able to spend time with my kids, play with them, take them fishing, to ball games, to see rabbanim, to learn with them, do homework with them, help them study, etc.
That is so wonderful of you. Since you want only 4, please don’t stop. Keep going. There are more childless couples than will be able to take all your “extras.”
iluvbeingjewish: um… we’re both female. I’m married. I don’t know about haifagirl. But anyway….no shower for the 2 of us.
I’m not married. But if you know anybody . . . 🙂
Haifagirl- if I want to say “everyone has to know themself” is themself one or two words? I always thought it was one but autocorrect changes it to two. Thanks!
Thank you for asking. I really admire people who want to learn more rather than keep making the same mistakes repeatedly.
Autocorrect is correct. Them and self are each separate words. Themselves is one word and is used for plurals.
Example: They didn’t hire movers, they moved everything themselves.
However, everyone is a singular word, so it requires a singular pronoun. What you mean to say is, “Everyone has to know himself.”
If you want to recast the sentence using gender-neutral language, try “All people have to know themselves.”
So despite the rule even, I will just make it simple for you both. I think I know who both of you are and I do not believe there would be anyway that you both would have ever crossed paths. Does that make you feel better?
But now that makes me wonder who you are!
There was no liquor at my wedding except for the wine we drank under the chuppah and a few bottles of Scotch at the tisch.
I am very grateful for my male friends who always make sure to check if there is alcohol for the women, and if not, bring me some.
Why is it that alcohol is served to the men and not the women? It should be both or neither.
I vote for 16-inch softball.
Am i supposed to be able to follow this????? My grammer is ok in english, and stinks in hebrew, my israeli friends are obbsessed with hebrew grammer, but when i talk they say they dont mind, as long as they can figure out around what im trying to say…..shouldnt it be the same i english?????
Why torture the poor high school girls who cant follow the grammer fight????? Haifagirl, were you this obbesssed in english grammer before you came to israel?????
1) Yes, you are supposed to be able to follow this. It’s in English.
2) Maybe your “grammer” is okay, but your grammar stinks–in English. (By the way, names of languages are capitalized.)
3) “Figure out around”? What does that mean?
4) I was obsessed with correct grammar from the time I was able to speak. You can ask the people I grew up with who hated being corrected by a fellow 6-year-old. (I thank my parents for making sure I spoke properly so I didn’t grow up to sound like a total ignoramus. I frequently wonder why other parents don’t care enough about their children to teach them to speak properly.)
5) I wish you a refuah shleimah. I see you must have hurt your fingers as you are unable to use the shift key, and you keep getting stuck on the question mark.
To on the ball: “spelt” is a grain, not the past tense of “spell”. But I did not cringe.
In American it’s usually “spelled.” In England, it’s usually “spelt.” Same for dreamed/dreamt and a few other verbs.
haifagirl- not really, because there’s no “do this” or “do that” in the real sentence. That’s just the “placemark” for let’s say “go to school” or “go to work.” try it again like that…
You’re absolutely right about “go to school” or “go to work.” In that case, the sentence would be “You’ll either go to school, or go to work.” However, that’s not what you said originally.
It always annoys me when people say things like “or I’ll do this, or I’ll do that.” I can’t help myself from answering “so you’ll either do this or that.”… It’s a literal translation of “ader des ader yentz”.
That is the equivalent of “You’ll either go to school or work.” Notice the lack of the second verb. That changes the meaning.
It’s not easy to come in in the middle of the show. You probably missed this exchange in a different thread:
haifagirl: There are several people who know who I am. What surprised me was that there are so many people who haven’t figured it out.
gefen: Haifagirl, I’m one of those who haven’t figured out who you are yet? In fact I asked another poster but she doesn’t know either. I am sooo curious. How long have you been away from chicago?
Which came shortly after this exchange in still another thread:
haifagirl: I once read somewhere (I forgot who wrote it) a wonderful vort on the subject. . . .
Syag Lchochma: Haifagirl – are you sure you read it and didn’t hear it from a former employer? 🙂
haifagirl: Syag Lchochma, I get the feeling you know me. Do I know you? Can you give me a hint?
syag Lchochma: Here’s a hint that may work – my daughter went to shul alone because there was nobody else to sit on her side of the machitza with her.
haifagirl: Aha! Give her my love.
haifagirl- it’s actually proper the way I said it too. This is from a grammar page as a proper sentence. Change “Mike” to “you” and it’s basically what I wrote.
You’re comparing apples and oranges. That’s not the same sentence at all. Diagram the sentences and you’ll see the difference.
My friend (the chumra queen) once told me that only chilonim barbecue. Frum people don’t.
It always annoys me when people say things like “or I’ll do this, or I’ll do that.” I can’t help myself from answering “so you’ll either do this or that.”… It’s a literal translation of “ader des ader yentz”.
Actually, if you want to be grammatically correct, you’ll answer, “So you’ll do either this or that?” Make sure you put either in the right place.
So – Hi Haifagirl! Still don’t know who you are, not that I’ve been actively trying to find out. But if you want to give any more hints, it might be fun. 😉
You could give a hint to your identity, then I might be able to give you a better hint to mine. 🙂
I was appalled by rebdoniel’s post about all the “necessary” expenses.
jewishfeminist02, you did a wonderful job of explaining how to cut costs easily.
Sometimes I read what New Yorkers consider necessary and I thank Hashem (yet again) that I never lived there.
It seems as if I’ve missed some stuff while I’ve been otherwise occupied.
No. Israel is the best country in the world.
Thank you. I was wondering if anybody else would say that.
Hashem gave us Eretz Yisroel. Obviously He thinks Eretz Yisroel is the best country, or He would have given us Canada.
So, can’t_stop_laughing, why do you disagree with Hashem?
I sometimes dream that I’m eating, and as I wake up I’m still bentching.
Beautifully said.
I have better things to do with my time than stand in front of a mirror putting on make-up. (Of course, I have better things to do with my time than waste it in the CR, but that’s for another thread.)
Why don’t you just listen to English music that is religious? There are plenty of those, such as “Mama Rochel.” (Okay, I know part of it is in Hebrew, and part in Yiddish, but basically, it’s an English song.)
Edit: it apparently opened 5 years ago and costs 40k+. ABORT ABORT ABORT (no, that does not mean become an ob/gyn).
🙂
akuperma: Everything you said was 100 percent spot on.
With one minor exception:
Since frum Jews spend a lot of time pouring over documents, we’ll probably be the last ones with decent reading skills.
I’m sure you meant “poring.” I hope you meant “poring.” Please tell me you meant “poring.”
Is anybody posting here older than 10? I fail to see what’s funny about annoying people.
(since this will almost certainly be misunderstood, no I am not serious. it is a ref)
A ref? Basketball? Hockey? Football?
I know it can’t be baseball. They have umpires, not referees.
I don’t remember what I got on the PSAT. On the SAT I got 610 in English and 720 in math. I took the old, old test. (They changed the way the scored it sometime in the 1980s or 1990s.
I used to go to the most wonderful chiropractor. He truly worked miracles. But he doesn’t believe in doing the kind of techniques that caused popping and cracking. He believes that bursting the nitrogen bubble is not so healthy. He also told me there aren’t very many practitioners of his technique (I don’t know the name of it) in the U.S.
I also went to a PT and didn’t find her to be so helpful. (I hope she doesn’t frequent the CR.)
Why did you go an allergist?
Clothing, Israeli summers are EXTREMELY hot. You only need a light sweatshirt for the evenings, you really only need a few white shirts, but beware, dry cleaning can get expensive, so try to bring shirts that don’t need dry cleaning or ironing. Skirts, five black skirts should be fine, and one of a different color, one pleated, one slinky skirt, one a line [sic] skirt, one pencil skirt, one straight skirt, and whatever color one you want (that means six skirts). Shirts for women, make sure to bring shells, they are most important to bring large amounts of because israeli shells are not such great quality. Two black sleeveless, two white cotton three quarter, one white for shabbos, two black three quarter, one black for shabbos. Layering shirts, tanktops take the least amount of space…
Just for the summer?! That’s more than I own for the entire year.
the [sic] only thing I would bring is toothpaste, cuz [sic] the Israeli ones are gross.
No they aren’t. I used Pardontax. It’s great.
Also, there are different chiropractic techniques. Some are better than others. I would never use a chiropractor who does “popping” or “cracking.”
I feel very fortunate. Hashem made me beautiful just the way I am. I never wear makeup. (And if those of you who know me disagree, you can keep your thoughts to yourself) 🙂
I certainly appreciate all those coming to my aid, but I’m really not that thin-skinned.
I don’t need an apology. Health entitled to his (her?) opinion.
Haifagirl – he’s a graphologist and he was able to glean that info from your posts
LOL
Those girls that are still single in middle age obviously don’t want to get married. For the last 20 -30 years they haven’t met their “Bashert” – so obviously they don’t want to marry their “Bashert” because he isn’t good enough in their minds. This takes them out of the Parsha – so why don’t the younger girls go out with these guys?
Thanks for letting me know I’m out of the Parsha. I didn’t realize that.
8. Let’s say that in one city 17% percent of a class is single and in another 3% is. When we average the two classes we will get 10%, but we would be better served and we would be helping those singles more, if we looked for a reason specific to that city.
I don’t know about the rest of the letter, but the math in this paragraph is flawed. Percentages are not averaged this way, as anyone can see if they just try it out.
Let’s call the city with the 17% singles city A, and the city with 3% singles city B.
If each city had 100 students in the class, than city A would have 17 singles and city B would have 3 singles. That’s 20 singles of 200 students and yes, the average is 10 singles or 10%. But what are the odds that both cities have the same number of students in the class.
Let’s say city A has 300 and city B has 50. Now, city A’s 17% is 51 guys, and city B’s 3% is 1.5. That’s a total of 52.5 guys out of 350, which is 14.7%.
On the other hand, if city A has 50 and city B has 300 it works out to 8.5 guys in city A and 9 guys in city B, for a total of 17.5 guys out out of 350, or 5%.
If they are going to make a case, they should use accurate arithmetic (yes, it’s not even advanced mathematics).
Somebody else would probably have shot him.
1) It’s considered bad form to shoot one’s students.
2) He’s got good connections that could be helpful to me someday.
Reminds me of a conversation I had with a student this week.
Him: You probably disagree with me, but Arafat was a great man.
Me: You’re right. I disagree with you.
🙂
Thank you.
writersoul, since you liked that story, I’ll tell you another one. I used to teach in a school that had a rule that students were not allowed to listen to non-Jewish music, even at home. One day I heard the principal’s phone ringing. Her ring tone was “Turkish Rondo” by Mozart.