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Are questions purely about Hebrew in-scope?

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On Mi Yodeya, questions about Hebrew that aren't clearly about Judaism are considered out of scope. Should that be the case here, or should questions about the Hebrew language be ipso facto on-topic?

Questions to consider (please edit in more if you see fit):

  • Is Modern Hebrew treated differently than Rabbinic, Mishnaic, Biblical Hebrew, etc.?

  • Are other languages of the Jews, such as Aramaic, Yiddish, and Ladino, treated similarly?

  • What about comparative Ancient Near Eastern linguistics?

  • Are questions like "how does one conjugate this verb into this tense" on topic?

  • Are questions like "what does this Hebrew tattoo mean" on topic?

  • Are questions like "please translate this sentence into Hebrew" on topic?

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Given that this site is for Q&A's about Judaism, it would seem appropriate that any Hebrew (or Aramaic) language questions should in some way connect with or originate in “source texts”. (I realize that begs the question: which texts!)

Of the six broad sample questions posed by OP, I can imagine the first four...

  1. Is Modern Hebrew treated differently than Rabbinic, Mishnaic, Biblical Hebrew, etc.?
  2. Are other languages of the Jews, such as Aramaic, Yiddish, and Ladino, treated similarly?
  3. What about comparative Ancient Near Eastern linguistics?
  4. Are questions like "how does one conjugate this verb into this tense" on topic?

...could be related fairly readily to source texts, while the fifth...

\5. Are questions like "what does this Hebrew tattoo mean" on topic?

...might be more of a stretch (not impossible, but unlikely!). Probably the sixth:

\6. Are questions like "please translate this sentence into Hebrew" on topic?

is the only one that is probably excluded altogether.

These would all be at home on a “Language & Linguistics” site, but that's not what Judaism.CD is.

(I may be misunderstanding the concept of “categories”, but I take it that a “category” is something like a post-type, whereas the issue of whether Hebrew-language-only questions are in scope is still a matter of Q&A that is related more to tagging than categories (I would have thought).)

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AA ‭ wrote almost 4 years ago · edited almost 4 years ago

Is there any difference between this suggestion and the policy at Mi Yodeya? I'm having trouble seeing one.

David‭ wrote almost 4 years ago

@AA - couldn't tell you, as I don't know what the MY policy is. (I was a user on the site, but very minimalist.) If this post is convergent with MY policy, that would be an instance of: בחיק יוטל את־הגורל ומיהוה כל־משפטו :)