"why do you have two words for castle?" said the woman whose L1 has five words for "village"

[yoavzack@tooot.im]

@Yuvalne
טירה ומצודה?

[yuvalne@433.world]

@yoavzack
shit you're right.
I went on Wikipedia to check what's the formal difference and was immediately reminded there's also ארמון and מבצר.
though to be fair, there's still more distinctions in Czech.
he ארמון = cs palác
he מבצר = he מצודה = cs citadela
he טירה but on a mountain = cs hrad
he טירה but not on a mountain = cs zámek

[laxla@tech.lgbt]

@Yuvalne hey but they have unique meanings
עיר - Ir, city
עיירה - Ayara, town
כפר - Arab village
ישוב - Yeshuv, Jewish village
מושב - Moshav, Jewish agricultural village
מושבה - Moshava, idk what this one means actually
קיבוץ - Kibbutz, communist village

And yes Hebrew distinguishes based on them being Jewish, Arab, or the fifth Abrahamic religion, communism.

(Ik you know this but I'm going to boost this one day lmao)

[laxla@tech.lgbt]

@Yuvalne @yoavzack
חומה ומגדל נחשב?

[laxla@tech.lgbt]

@Yuvalne (for non-Israelis, the missing three Abrahamic religions in that paragraph are Christianity, Islam, and Duruze)

[yuvalne@433.world]

@laxla you forgot קבוצה which is the same as קיבוץ but founded before 1920.
as for מושבה, it's essentially a village that hasn't decided which of the others it wants to be yet. a teenage-phase ישוב if you will.

[laxla@tech.lgbt]

@Yuvalne Hebrew village cinematic universe when --- oh. Wait.

[laxla@tech.lgbt]

@Yuvalne I've never in my life heard of this "קבוצה".

[yuvalne@433.world]

@laxla it's what קיבוץ was during the second Aliyah. like קבוצת כינרת and קבוצת דגניה.

[laxla@tech.lgbt]

@Yuvalne honestly I'd just call this pretransition, not an entirely separate word

[yuvalne@433.world]

@laxla oh I know it's just funny to pretend it is

[laxla@tech.lgbt]

@Yuvalne it's like pretending גרב and גרב are different words because of the different genders.

Oh wait you're right, it is funny

[alon@mastodon.social]

@laxla @Yuvalne

>fifth Abrahamic religion, communism

What's the fourth? Habad?

[laxla@tech.lgbt]

@Alon @Yuvalne

Laxystem (Masto/Glitch) (@[email protected])

@[email protected] (for non-Israelis, the missing three Abrahamic religions in that paragraph are Christianity, Islam, and Duruze)

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[laxla@tech.lgbt]

@Alon @Yuvalne I like how the entire internet just agrees that communism is the fifth Abrahamic religion

Antisemitism, smh /j

[laxla@tech.lgbt]

@Alon @Yuvalne and yes these people are the entire internet (no they ain't)

[burnoutqueen@tech.lgbt]

@laxla @Alon @Yuvalne

Marxism-Leninism certainly does have a quasi-religious aspect to it. Same with Maoism and some forms of Trotskyism.

[laxla@tech.lgbt]

@burnoutqueen @Alon @Yuvalne sure burnout sure

[burnoutqueen@tech.lgbt]

@laxla @Alon @Yuvalne

Have you seen the amount of weird insular sects surrounding ostensibly communist politics? There are many, including in places like Maoist China and Stalinist Russia.

[laxla@tech.lgbt]

@burnoutqueen @Alon @Yuvalne no I'm just laughing at your inability to not reply when seeing "communism" in local feed /lh