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Reporter's Notebook: Studying Bible With Bibi
jerusalempost.com 3 days, 3 hours agoThere is something both heartening and humorous about Netanyahu setting aside precious time to contemplate Ruth on Shavuot.
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As Our Languages Make Clear, Context Is A Human Specialty
latimes.com 15 hours, 41 minutes agoResearch shows that humans are remarkably good at divining one another's intentions using context , a skill, incidentally, that computers have not yet mastered.Is Bob your uncle? Probably depends on what language you're speaking. In Urdu, if Robert's your father's brother, he's your chacha , but not if he's your father's older brother ( taaya ), your mother's brother ( mamu ), your father's sister's husband ( phupa ) or your mother's sister's husband ( khalu ).










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