Found this in one of my friends' journals, and just couldn't help myself from reposting. In the spirit of Christmas, here is "Hail Mary" in Syriac (a language closely related to Aramaic). Listen to the song, a beautiful performance in its own right, and see how close it is to Hebrew.
Šlom-léḳ mar-yam, mal-yat ṭay-boo-to
mo-ran 'a-méḳ
mba-raḳ-to at bné-šé
wam-ba-ra-ḳoo fee-ro dkar-séḳ, yé-šoo'
mort mar-yam, é-méh da-lo-ho
ét-ka-šaf ḥlo-fayn, ḥnan ḥa-ṭo-yé
ho-šo wab-šo'-to dmaw-tan
a-meen
שלום לך מרים, מלאת החסד
ה' עִמך
ברוכה את בנשים
וברוך פרי בטנך, ישוע
מרים הקדושה, אם האלוהים
התפללי בעדנו, החוטאים
עתה ובשעת מותנו
אמן
Note how "beten" resonates with "keres", "tfila" with "kishuf", and "hesed" with "tova". I still can't figure out the roots of "moran" and "mort" though.
The past couple of days I'm staying home, recovering from some "unspecified upper respiratory tract infection", taking it easy, and reading some books and magazines. One peculiar article that caught my eye was in the National Geographic. It's about a small city bird called the "common swift". It says there, among other things, that the swift likes to stay airborne as much as possible. Fine, I don't mind it flying around. But what about this part: (also in Wikipedia) "Swifts spend most of their lives in the air, living on the insects they catch in their beaks. They drink, feed, and often mate and sleep on the wing". Can someone please explain, how any animal can sleep while flying?
What's the hardest, most embarrassing or most inappropriate question you were asked this holiday season? Who asked it?
Him: "Why were you in therapy?"
Me: "Because I'm fuck nuts."
I found it to be quite hilarious. :) It came from a man (that explains a lot) with whom I have relatively limited association.
Ask a crazy question, get a crazy answer!
My first ever home-made postcard. Should I quit my day job yet?
Watching "Monsters vs Aliens" with the kids. The big bad alien Gallaxhar had his plot to invade Earth completely foiled. He needs to use some strong language.
(English version, discovered later) Oh... Spaceballs!
(Hebrew dub) Cosssmonaut!
Christmas day has been and gone.......wasn't too bad. Was helped by the fact dad never really liked Christmas and wasn't big on celebration anyway.......hopefully once the new year is here things will get a bit easier......
See you in 2010!
We spent time with family. We ate italian sausages. We played a part in some couple's engagement story in front of the National Christmas tree. We opened our new pajamas. And I cried while trying to read our traditional Christmas books.
I really do think what goes around comes around.
This time it is me who is jobless, right? I had no idea the overwhelming support I'd be getting from my friends and the community in genearl. OMFG.
Gonna be talking with Flickr and Zappos...
WHOA. WHOA. WHOA. WHOA. WHOA. WHOA.
Wish me luck people! Wish me luck...
Btw, I gotta stay in Seattle though. So send me good ossm job finding vibes for a job that allows me to stay in Seattle. :D
