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articlebot · 10-13-2009, 08:46 AM

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Arcy · 11-09-2009, 10:10 PM

I just noticed this online and haven't seen the actual patterns, but the lettering on the dreidels in the picture are wrong.

Hebrew is read right-to-left, so the letters should be:
נ-ג-ה-ש
instead of:
ש-ה-ג-נ

--Rob

Arcy · 11-09-2009, 10:23 PM

The patterns were hiding in the attachments link to the right. The compound dreidel letters are correct (in the pattern, but not the picture). The flat dreidel's letters are in reverse order in both.

An additional fun fact: In Israel, the last letter is "פ" (pe) instead of "ש". Instead of saying "a great miracle happened there", it says "a great miracle happened here".

--Rob

scrollpup · 11-10-2009, 03:32 AM

LOL!!! How smart a boy are ya? (Along the line of Roy D. Mercer)

Scrolling Days · 11-10-2009, 03:37 AM

My education of Hebrew lettering consists of the cool scene in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade where Indy has to walk across the chasm on stone letters.

After that....it's all Greek, er, Hebrew to me.

Arcy · 11-10-2009, 09:14 PM

Shawn, Jerry, I have one thing to say to you two:
!!!פפפפפפפפפבת

--Rob

Scrolling Days · 11-10-2009, 09:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Arcy

Shawn, Jerry, I have one thing to say to you two:
!!!פפפפפפפפפבת

--Rob

My handy dandy Google Hebrew to English translator which I keep for just such an emergency tells me that spells "Fffffffffbt !!!" Sounds like something Bill the Cat would say!

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11-09-2009, 10:10 PM	#2
Arcy Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Seattle(ish) Posts: 772	I just noticed this online and haven't seen the actual patterns, but the lettering on the dreidels in the picture are wrong. Hebrew is read right-to-left, so the letters should be: נ-ג-ה-ש instead of: ש-ה-ג-נ --Rob

11-09-2009, 10:23 PM	#3
Arcy Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Seattle(ish) Posts: 772	The patterns were hiding in the attachments link to the right. The compound dreidel letters are correct (in the pattern, but not the picture). The flat dreidel's letters are in reverse order in both. An additional fun fact: In Israel, the last letter is "פ" (pe) instead of "ש". Instead of saying "a great miracle happened there", it says "a great miracle happened here". --Rob

11-10-2009, 09:14 PM	#6
Arcy Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Seattle(ish) Posts: 772	Shawn, Jerry, I have one thing to say to you two: !!!פפפפפפפפפבת --Rob