[lojban-beginners] Re: OT: Talmud and Hebrew

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Thursday 25 October 2007 10:10, turnip wrote:
>   Well, hold on a sec (sorry about the offtopicness), but while the Mishnah
> was written in Hebrew, the Gemorah (i.e. the majority of the Talmud)was
> written unabashedly in Aramaic (basically except where they are quoting
> mishnayot, baraitot, and tanakh).  And it's full of phrases that are
> shorthand phrases that stand for complex concepts (ex. "p'sik reisha"
> (literally, "cut off its head") to mean "An activity, that while in and of
> itself is not a violation of the Sabbath, would inevitably lead to a
> violation"

.i la noltruni'u cu cusku lu ko vimcu le stedu ti li'u zo'o

mu'o mi'e pier.