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Scraper Sites and Aramaic

For those of you who aren’t familiar with them, a “scraper site” is an automated program that roams the Internet, grabbing existing content (which is usually copyrighted) to interleave with links to products and post to a “dummy” blog in a formulated way that manipulates search engine rankings.

For some reason, they love doing weird things with Aramaic. See exhibit A:

Horrible, erroneous misinterpretation! For “Chanel” I’d expect maybe xnl or even $nl. Then again, the consonant sequence nl (“nel,” “nal”) is rather rare in Aramaic to begin with. Must be some sort of crazy loan. ๐Ÿ˜‰

Peace,
-Steve

Stephen Colbert’s Aramaic Antics on Twitter


Interesting tweet came in over Twitter today.

From StephenAtHome (i.e Stephen Colbert):

Sometimes I wonder, “what would Jesus tweet?” But you can’t say much with 140 characters of Aramaic

It’s been re-tweeted hundreds of times, clogging my normal searches for Aramaic. ๐Ÿ™‚

My reply?

@StephenAtHome — Re:140 characters of Aramaic -> ืžื ืฆื‘ื™ ืืช ืžื™ืžืจ — “ma รงabey at memar?” — “What do you want to say?”

Peace,
-Steve

Family-Friendly Jesus is Unavailable…


I came across an interesting tweet on Twitter today, culled from my large Aramaic-seeking nets that wasn’t completely a match for the Aramaic Blog’s regular musings. However it was too long to retweet, so I’ve decided to post it here instead for everyone’s enjoyment:

From messianicisrael on Fri 19 Feb 10:47 AM EST via Facebook:

For those looking for a family friendly, Yeshua… { “errorCode”: 503, “errorMessage”: “Service unavailable.”, “statusCode”: “ERROR” }

It seems that when technologies don’t mesh quite right…

We now return you to your regular Aramaic blogging. ๐Ÿ™‚

Peace,
-Steve