Thousands of years ago a very venerable, wise and cruel old man with a wicked sense of humour invented this language. He's probably still laughing now.
It took the guy who invented modern Hebrew nearly twenty years to do so, for this exact reason.
didn't you have the grandmothers and the aunts stalking round filling plates and demanding people eat?
No, actually. That's what happens on holidays. And everyone goes home with food to last through the next ice age.
Dancing around the guy with the laser gun and trying to terrify him to white-knuckleness?
Hah, yes. We should have. Everyone who has gone though the chair dance ought to be able to inflict it on somebody else . . .
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Date: 2008-06-30 01:01 am (UTC)It took the guy who invented modern Hebrew nearly twenty years to do so, for this exact reason.
didn't you have the grandmothers and the aunts stalking round filling plates and demanding people eat?
No, actually. That's what happens on holidays. And everyone goes home with food to last through the next ice age.
Dancing around the guy with the laser gun and trying to terrify him to white-knuckleness?
Hah, yes. We should have. Everyone who has gone though the chair dance ought to be able to inflict it on somebody else . . .