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Hebrew characters
Actually Yiddish characters, but they look real close to the Hebrew ones, though.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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zmjezhd knows how to make Hebrew characters appear on the Board
No, he doesn't. He knows how to make little rectangles appear on the Board.
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> rectangles
I'm with you Jackie. ain't you got no Yidbrew font on your machine, Fald?
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The Yiddish is literally "little grandmother" but the use broadened over time to include males.
The diminutive suffix -ele would be added to make her a little grandmother, i.e. "bubbele."
(That's BUB-schwah-luh, U as in put rather than putt.) Yes, yes, both of them :-) ) The diminutive can be used as a dismissive, somewhat belittling put-down, though paradoxically it also can carry overtones of affection.
Bubbe does mean grandmother, and by extension any older woman, sometimes implying a meddling old woman. It's also the source of a delightful bilingual pun, exploiting the word "Meisse" meaning story, plural "Meissen,' pronounced MICE-en. "Bubbemeissen" are old wives' tales, but if you like you may equally refer to "bubbamycin," the fanciful antibiotic in chicken soup...
Addendum: Sorry, zmjezhd, at least it's only half a mantle... (weak-excuse-for-an-apology-e)
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>> Actually Yiddish characters, but they look real close to the Hebrew ones, though.<<
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ain't you got no Yidbrew font on your machine, Fald?
Naw, I jus oney gots a Mac. But at least our dragon can do little rectangles in three languages.
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No, he doesn't. He knows how to make little rectangles appear on the Board.
If you look to the right of the little boxes, you'll the transliterated word (using the approved YIVO romanization scheme).
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Naw, I jus oney gots a Mac. But at least our dragon can do little rectangles in three languages.
Funny, works out A-OK on my Mac. In both Safari and Mozilla. (I don't have IE installed, so I can't test that.)
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It was a joke, I say, it was a joke, son. Yiddish uses, for the most part, letters from the Hebrew alphabet, though it has modified some of them and added some ligatures.
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works out A-OK on my Mac. In both Safari and Mozilla. (I don't have IE installed, so I can't test that.)
I see your Greek/Cyrillic/Hebrew characters just fine on both IE and firefox browsers. The problem I seem to have is in copying such characters from some other sites and then pasting them into AWAD's editor -- then I get little rectangles.
for example:
[I can't come up with an example right now; I suppose it is a combination of browser/computer dependency]
here's an example which copies somewhat bizarrely, but note what happened to the expression "'byzantinisation' of σ[sigma] into C".
παρελθοντολαγνεία
I give a similar intrerpretation to the 'byzantinisation' of σ into ϲ
then there is the strange way that OED etymologies copy:
{kappa}{omicron}{rho}{omega}{nu}{giacu}{fsigma}
but I suppose this is an improvement on the ϲs I used to get.
hmmm, the same block of Greek letters comes across as nothing via IE.
There is no straighforward way to get Greek characters in HTML.
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