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The Little Princess – Royal Virtue Signaling from Steimatzky Publishing

/ Hebrew, Literature / 5 minutes of reading

Steimatzky (סְטִימָצְקִי in Hebrew) is the oldest and largest bookstore chain in Israel. The Chain was officially founded in 1925 by Tzvi Steimatzky and his half-brother Yechezkel Steimatzky five years after Tzvi Steimatzky had opened the first bookstore in Tel Aviv in 1920. Back then its primary focus was foreign language books as Hebrew wasn’t …

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The Curious Case of Microsoft 365 Creative Assets

/ Chinese, Politics, Technology / 5 minutes of reading

In the last couple of weeks, I have been working on and off on a PowerPoint presentation for a new course titled Introduction to Mandarin Chinese Pronunciation I plan to teach in Israel. As the name suggests, it is a beginners’ course, and it teaches the fundamental sounds of the languages such as tones, initials, …

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Fenced Currency – Immigration, inflation and the lingo-economic war waged on your mind

/ Etymology, Chinese, Greek, Hebrew, Politics / 16 minutes of reading

The Chinese word for city is 城市 (pinyin – chéng shì). The first character 城 means wall in the sense of a defensive wall, and the second character 市 represents market. The name Polis (πόλις) for the ancient city-states of Greece is believed to have derived from ptólis which means citadel or fort, but it …

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