I would like to go to London! Although I should go someplace else first, as I've been to London. How's late May?

How about London and Paris?

How about London and Paris?

New York, London, Paris, Munich - everybody's talking about pop music.

is this what you mean by written and printed form?

Yup, exactly this.

Ne(dot)delta

N.e.(delta) is what I'd write with a pencil on a paper. (dots between each of the letters, as far as I write them).

or pe(dot)delta

The "p" ting is because several letters have "final" letters, when they appear at the end of words. Do you see, in your link, how Kaf, Mem, Noon, Peh and Tsadee all have two forms of writing the letters, both in the printed and in the written version? The second form is the "final" letter. The "p" is the final version of the "N", which is mem. So it will never apppear at the beginning of a word.

םשל ?

Whoah. Dude. All hail Insert->Symbols and cut-and-paste!

That's the printed version, only the first letter, the square "o", is wrong, since it's the printed version of the final letter, the printed version of the "p". You should have - let's see if I can cut and paste - "מ"

[Edit: it looks OK on my screen. Does it also look like the letter near the "ם", the square "o", for you?]

Got it. Sweet! I like learning stuff.

So, printed: משל

Beause I see MS Word says the one I did was "HEBREW FINAL MEM".

X-post!

Yay! Go Emily!

OK, your prize is your name in Hebrew: אמילי

Yay! Really, the Hebrew alphabet just looks nicer. Which may be part just exoticism, but I think it has some of the letter-as-art feel that the Chinese and Japanese kanji system does.

I heard Nilly was around and had to sneak in and say hello!

I've done a handful of cleaning chores, and laundry, and put my laundry away. That's enough for the day, right? I can start my slacking now, can't I, instead of waiting until after my massage?

Really, the Hebrew alphabet just looks nicer.

The English alphabet has this nice roundness that I like. Also, most of its letters connect to each other more easily. When I write in Hebrew, I tend to connect the letters, because I can write faster this way, so the English letters sort of fit the way I want to move my pencil in that regard (though I probably commit horrid grammatical errors while connecting them in writing, since I've never learned how to do that).

I think it has some of the letter-as-art feel that the Chinese and Japanese kanji system does.

Have you ever seen the rashi alphabet? It's somewhat different than the regular Hebrew one, and looks even stranger, IMHO.

You can see it here or here under/near "Rashi".

[Edit: vw!

Your (real, since very few posters here can read it, and your screen name is English letters) )name in Hebrew letters: ואלרי ]

Cool!