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Are questions purely about Hebrew in-scope?
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):
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Is Modern Hebrew treated differently than Rabbinic, Mishnaic, Biblical Hebrew, etc.?
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Are other languages of the Jews, such as Aramaic, Yiddish, and Ladino, treated similarly?
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What about comparative Ancient Near Eastern linguistics?
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Are questions like "how does one conjugate this verb into this tense" on topic?
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Are questions like "what does this Hebrew tattoo mean" on topic?
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Are questions like "please translate this sentence into Hebrew" on topic?
Given that this site is for Q&A's about Judaism, it would seem appropriate that any Hebrew (or Aramaic) language questio …
4y ago
We should allow any Hebrew, Ladino, Yiddish, Judeo-Arabic questions with no restrictions, even ones that clearly have no …
4y ago
Speaking personally, I agree with the other posts which propose allowing questions related to these Jewish languages but …
4y ago
One solution is a Hebrew Language category. See here. Potentially all your examples would be in scope in that category.
4y ago
I think that questions about Hebrew and Jewish languages should be allowed. Knowledge of Hebrew/JL is useful for studyin …
4y ago
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We should allow any Hebrew, Ladino, Yiddish, Judeo-Arabic questions with no restrictions, even ones that clearly have nothing at all to do with Judaism as chances are we won't get so many of them to create problems. Handling the few that we get and knowing we explicitly allow non-Judaism content on a nominally Judiasm site are simply the cost of having a simple (and simplistic) scope definition. If it ever becomes a problem we can reevaluate.
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