For the better part of a year, I've had an on-again, off-again debate with my D.H. as to the "correct" adjective in the children's finger-play nursery rhyme, "The Itsy-Bitsy Spider" (now you know which one I favor). My D. H. insists that the correct descriptive is "inky dinky," whereas I demur. I vaguely recollect from my own childhood, either hearing " itsy-bitsy spider ," or even more familiar to me, the description "eency-weency," referring to said spider's miniscule size, yet plucky persistance, and how he (she?) braved the violent rainstorm which "washed it out" after the arduous climb up the water spout, yet doggedly climbed the spout again, after the sun came out and 'dried up all the rain.' Many, if not most of our American nursery rhymes originated on the other side of the pond, in England, for obvious reasons: the American colonists were British in origin, and brought with them the culture an...
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The green WAS a problem (I had to wear sunglasses!)
I also think that lighter lettering is easier on the eyes, so I will try the light aqua - one of my favorite colors (!) - and see if that is feasible...
אני חושבת שרק אמשיך מה שאני עושה עכשו.
Your computer is not Ivrit capable? I remember before I figured out how to use the software, I used to transliterate - as you are; my kids hated it! My youngest (in Israel) threatened to stop IMing with me if I continued, hahah.
Nu, I have to ask: are you a Tzabar or Tzabarit??? I can't keep writing "(it)" all the time!
and ya, the computer im usin these days is quite anti-semitic, seems like.
טוב לי כאן
Which is the easy answer...the truth is, it is not easy to live in Israel.
im here temporarily.
Shabbat Shalom
(I love the "ichsa!")