At first, my writing in English was for objective reasons - I had not thought about the Ayal when I got Hebrew support, so I declined the offer of installing Hebrew writing support. Now, by the way, I wouldn't have enough room in my Linux account for Hebrew writing support, anyway, so it is quite moot.

Afterwards, I was asked by a friend, who also writes for the Ayal, why I had decided to write in English. It then occured to me that my writing style in English is far more aesthetic, at least in my eyes, than it is in Hebrew. In addition, since the objective conditions in my faculty's computer farm force me to spend most of my time on the Linux account, I had figured that, for consistency's sake, I should write in English, so that people will believe that I am the same person. I would normally also say something about the different blind-typing speeds, but they have somewhat evened out over the years.

And that, in short, is why I write in English.

I don't mind answering any questions. I have nothing to hide.
-I am bilingual - I have both Hebrew and English as mother tongues. Or so it seems to me, in any case. I speak and write in both quite fluently.
-I had lived in the US on two occasions: for the three or so years right after I was born, and for a year on my parents` Sabbatical.
-My style in both languages is a tad incompatible, I think. This stems from my spending more time speaking Hebrew than speaking English - society seems to look down upon too lofty a vocabulary, so one's linguistic quality tends to degrade in time. Mine did, in any case, to my opinion. I enjoy the ability to express myself in a dialect to my choosing.

Your English tends, or at least aspires to be more English the American - is this a conscious decision?

The sound of English-English usage, sentence construct, as well as mannerism strikes me as quit odd, at time. Your tendency to use understatement and to qualify you opinion also has that very English aroma.

A small request, can you substitute "tad" with "bit" from time to time?

I think it is more of a subconscious decision, stemming from watching far too much British comedy, and reading too much Terry Pratchett.

And though I am a tad bewildered by your request I'll try to implement it a bit. :-)

Well, in that case, it would seem that I serve as a counter-example to your mini-theory.

Was your last paragraph intended as some kind of threat - that you are gathering information about me?

As for my appearing under a different name, and writing in Hebrew - as I had explained before, objective conditions in my faculty's computer farm make this somewhat unlikely, but you need not take my word for it.

As for not leaving an email address, I shall fix that in a jiffy.

And I don't see why you would ignore me just because I did not until now display my email address - such behaviour sounds a bit petty to me.

What wasn't too hard?
Did you do this before or after I started displaying my email address?

And what do you think about my web-site, by the way? It's somewhat Spartan, I know, but did you like it?

I like the subtlety of your presentation. The fact that there are no glitzy colors (or rather colours) nor any other web paraphernalia, enables any low tech hoi polloi access to the wealth of information you had managed so prudently to accumulate.

Seek not finesse where you can easily find sloth..

Nonwithstanding, fancy schmancy websites do get on my nerves. Have you noticed how Haaretz redecorated themselves? They're hardly usable now, whenever their site actually manages to load, that is.

I don't have to.
I know it isn't a compliment.

hezi@lannet.com

I'm Nobody! Who are you?

I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Are you--Nobody--Too?
Then there's a pair of us?
Don't tell! they'd advertise--you know!

How dreary--to be--Somebody!
How public--like a Frog--
To tell one's name--the livelong June--
To an admiring Bog!

Emily Dickinson

Why are you apologizing? What's wrong with American poetry?

Better?

Actually, it's a "chaf," not a "kuf."

As I said before, I reiterate - I cannot, due to objective reasons, use Hebrew writing abilities on my Linux account. I haven't the room for anything more. My quota is already hanging around the asterisk area. (I think it is there at the moment.)

Allow me to commend you, by the way, on taking the effort of writing in Hebrew from faraway Deutschland, in which, I would wager, finding Hebrew writing apparatus is quite rare.

I would like to object to one point, though: why would the value of my responses change with the language in which I express them? Does a mouse change its form when you call it "achbar?"

I shall indeed do so, promptly.

I am sick and tired of people argumentum ad homineming me ad infinitum. Bickering, petty, speck-like people, with nothing to do but pick at syntactic and linguistic issues, when those are not at all relevant.

Have I made myself clear? Need I repeat myself in thirty languages? Perhaps in Deutsch?