I LOVE IT. 

It is true lmaoooo What are the main reasons Hebrew is ambiguous? Chinese is plainly an overly poetic language in my opinion and the Chinese are very fond of being extremely roundabout when speaking

Ha ha, in Hebrew it’s mainly because 1) Hebrew is relatively poor (in quantity) when it comes to words, so one word can mean multiple things 2) unfortunately many consonants were lost from Biblical Hebrew to Modern Hebrew, but it led to many different words, which are spelt differently, sounding the same, thus creating even more ambiguity 3) Hebrew is rich in registers, so one thing can mean various things, depending on its register -

A hilarious example of it was when my friend, who had then recently read an old book with 70′s high register Hebrew and was then heavily influenced by it, told me AT WORK what I thought was ‘we need to fuck patiently’ (which would be the modern Hebrew slang interpretation of it), but actually meant ‘we need to arm ourselves with patience’ (so, basically, we need to be patient XD) you can only imagine my utter confusion until I understood she meant it the high register way, not the slang way XD

4) Hebrew is just RICH with slang expressions AND high register expressions and you never know what to expect (see example above)

5) Being a Semitic language, it has unique morphology and lets us play a lot with roots and verb & nouns patterns, thus allowing some creativity with creating new slang words.

6) Also LOADS of loan words from MULTIPLE languages, and normally, each load word often has, again, multiple interpretations. 

The example in the previous post contained the loan word ‘look’ from English, which in Hebrew normally is borrowed to refer to a person’s Lewk(tm), as in, their fashion/style, but it can also function in its basic meaning of a ‘look’. The expression for to show off a look essentially literally means something like ‘to knock a look’, and its normal interpretation is ‘to show off your look(tm)/style’, but it can also be interpreted as ‘to give someone a strong look’, ie, implied eye-fucking, which is also helped by the fact that the Hebrew verb for ‘to knock’ also means ‘to fuck’, so basically that wordplay has three fucking layers to it ha ha

bless you. i was thinking about those resolutions earlier and how i can't see either show!crowley or aziraphale as smokers. it just doesn't work for them in my head for some reason. looks nice in the art, though.

I do say sit on my ass but it seems like the meaning is not the same as what you’re trying to say in Hebrew???? What does it mean

Ok so to sit on someone’s ass (לשבת למישהו על התחת) in Hebrew originally means to really annoy them or pressure them into doing something by annoying them but like we also use this expression when asking friends to remind us to get shit done?

Like ‘sit on my ass please till I do the dishes’ for example.

As in ‘please don’t stop annoying me until I get shit done’

Boy that shirt is amazing

thanks! got it from jcrew a while back, they have good pieces occasionally and occasionally deep enough sales I can snag one of them. I like smaller/complex floral patterns