So, being both modern-tech and digital communications savvy as well as deeply involved in the study of ancient languages and old-fashioned correspondence… my everyday life tends to express irony.
I was trying to log into one of the many SQL databases (which I manage through this nifty program called phpMyAdmin), and the program was consistently denying me access, telling me that my password was incorrect. Believing that I simply might be mistaken with what password I used, I went through my entire password repertoire…
No luck.
I then figured that I must have improperly capitalized things, so I made sure that my shift key wasn’t stuck, and that my caps-lock key was up. A number of “dots” later in the password field and…
No dice.
Now I was getting frustrated! I figured that the SQL server must be down, which would then mean, by way of logic, that the website that was driven by it would also be down. Fearing that was the case I had to check, so I clicked up on the URL field of my web browser and entered in the address:
התתפ://ששש.אראמאיצדעסיגנס.צומ
It then dawned on me: I was typing with the Hebrew keyboard in the password field.
Argh!!
It was me who was not working…
Don’t let this happen to you. 🙂
Peace,
-Steve
PS: Challenge for techno-language-nerds like myself. 100 Points to whoever decodes the following cipher first:
א צאתהוליצ פריעסת אנד א ראבבי פינד תהעמסעלועס סיתתינג נעכת תו עאצה ותהער ונ א לונג חוורנעט אנד סו אפתער סומע העסיתאתיונ סתארת תו תאלכ תו עאצהותהער. אפתער דיסצוססינג תהע שעאתהער אנד ספורתס, תהע פריעסת תורנס תו תהע ראבבי אנד סאטס תהאת הע תהווגהת ית שאס ראתהער סתראנגע תהאת עה שאס נות אללושעד תו עאת פורכ, אנד אסכעד הימ שהעתהער הע עוער האד.
תהע ראבבי רעפליעד, ’שעלל, שהענ י שאס א סמאלל בוט, י דיד ינ פאצת תאסתע א סמאלל פיעצע ופ באצונ.’
’שהאת שאס ית ליכע?’ אסכעד תהע פריעסת.
תהע ראבבי רעפליעד: ’נות נעארלט אס גווד אס סעח.’
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first of all, let me say, please learn to use the Standard Israeli Hebrew keyboard layout. this transliteration stuff hurts my head. 😛
a catholic priest and a rabbi find themselves siting next to each other on a long journey and so after some hesitation start to talk to eachother. after discussing the weather and sports, the priest turns to the rabbi and says that he thought it was rather strange that he was not allowed to eat pork, and asked him whether he ever had.
the rabbi replied, “well, when i was a small boy, i did in fact taste a small piece of bacon.”
“what was it like?” asked the priest.
the rabbi replied: “not nearly as good as sex.”
And 100 points to Steg. 🙂
I’ll eventually think of something to do with accumulated points…
I’ve been a user of the phonetic layout for alternate keyboards for some time now (originally, I found it much easier to learn) although I am much more fond of the Syriac Phonetic layout than I am of Hebrew Phonetic.
For me to learn to write using a standard Israeli keyboard (at this point) would be like learning Dvorak and would slow me down considerably (as I write in Qwerty at anywhere from 90 to 150 WPM, depending on the music).
Peace,
-Steve
Hey! its written in Yiddish manners
In Hebrew we have another way to pronounce “3ayin” or “‘ayin” (“ע”), in Yiddish its simply a replacement for the Tzere sign “ֵ”
Pretty amusing actually!