Yeah! That's great. Are you aiming for it to be Syriac, or Garshuni (Arabic in Syriac letters) since it is the first half of the Muslim shahada? In the Garshuni case, you should drop the lomadh at the beginning of the last word (in Arabic this would always be written with a double-sign over the middle lomadh, but Syriac has no way of marking the double-sign): ܠܐ ܐܠܗ ܐܠܐ ܐܠܗ. In the true Syriac case, then in addition to dropping the initial lomadh of the final word, you should add a definite olaph to the end: ܠܐ ܐܠܗ ܐܠܐ ܐܠܗܐ. Unfortunately, both will require changing the userpic.
It should be Syriac, not Garshuni. Thanks for the correction! I was most uncertain about ܐܠܗ vs. ܐܠܗܐ . But regarding the initial ܠ, I thought it was needed to get "except" rather than "unless": -ܐܠܐ ܠ , per the last mention in the Payne Smith dictionary entry for ܐܠܐ . Is one usage much more common than the other?
I made them! or rather, I designed them, a coworker with a computer-controlled woodmill cut them, then I painted, sanded, and poly-ed them. I actually have an extra set cut out (but not finished), because it was easy to do extras once the mill was set up, to use up all the wood I bought. I based the distribution/scores on the Hebrew Scrabble set sold in Israel (not the one sold in the US, which is universally agreed be be inferior), adjusted per the recommendations of a friend-of-a-friend who was familiar with both Hebrew and Aramaic.
"Except" is also the fourth gloss J. Payne-Smith gives for ܐܠܐ by itself. I don't know what she's basing her definition of ܐܠܐ ܠ on, but I don't think I've ever seen it (except in the case where ܠ indicates possession in parallel with a possessive ܠ in the clause preceding).
Cool that you were able to make those tiles! Sorry it messes up the userpic, but it's cool it still works!
And may I ask why you changed your lj title to the chief wife of Tolui and the mother of Mongke, Kublai, Hulegu, and Ariq-boke? It's a great title, mind you! I'm just curious since I just took general exams on the religions of the Mongol Empire (1206-1405), and how to interpret Sorqaqtani Beki is an important debate... =-)
Two reasons: 1. She's awesome. That's cool about your exams. Is there any book or article you can point me to that tries to talk about what being Christian meant to her and her family? I imagine the kind of evidence we have is along the lines of name studies, gravestones, artifacts. What little I've been able to dig up is just that they were recommended to eat yogurt instead of meat for lent because they didn't eat plants at all. 2. I was tired of having to misspell the handle I wanted because it was already taken, so when I signed up with twitter, I picked her because there's no end of variant spellings for her name.
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But where did you get Syriac scrabble pieces?!
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I made them! or rather, I designed them, a coworker with a computer-controlled woodmill cut them, then I painted, sanded, and poly-ed them. I actually have an extra set cut out (but not finished), because it was easy to do extras once the mill was set up, to use up all the wood I bought. I based the distribution/scores on the Hebrew Scrabble set sold in Israel (not the one sold in the US, which is universally agreed be be inferior), adjusted per the recommendations of a friend-of-a-friend who was familiar with both Hebrew and Aramaic.
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Cool that you were able to make those tiles! Sorry it messes up the userpic, but it's cool it still works!
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1. She's awesome. That's cool about your exams. Is there any book or article you can point me to that tries to talk about what being Christian meant to her and her family? I imagine the kind of evidence we have is along the lines of name studies, gravestones, artifacts. What little I've been able to dig up is just that they were recommended to eat yogurt instead of meat for lent because they didn't eat plants at all.
2. I was tired of having to misspell the handle I wanted because it was already taken, so when I signed up with twitter, I picked her because there's no end of variant spellings for her name.