Biblical Hebrew is cursed because “a portion of manna” is “man manah” and neither of those two words is the one you’d expect.
Man = manna
Manah = portion
Why
There is surely a good language out there, right?
Right?
May 7, 2025 00:25Biblical Hebrew is great! Fucking chaotic but that’s half the fun.
You have my attention! What's the other half?
25% the letters look pretty, 25% the way it breaks my brain that the roots are entirely consonants, and 75% how there’s no vowels originally so there’s 70 valid ways to interpret half the sentences.
