berliita

 
Member Since September 26, 2006 , From Israel
Ask
Liked this profile? Tell your friends about it

Recent Activity by berliita

Answered: In english, grammatical realtionships between ...

True. Consider, for example, the following couple of sentences: 1. The cat sits in the man's lap. 2. The man sits in the cat's lap. The two sentences are identical but for word order. However, in the ...

Answered: What is the meaning of the question "How do you ...

It's a greeting, used to acknowledge the presence of another person, when two people meet or are introduced to each other. It's interchangeable with "Hello!", and requires no answer.

Answered: Bible as fairy tale

A teacher should only be fired if he/she does not comply with the regulations set forth by the local ministry of education. If you ask me what these regulations *should* be, the partial answer is that ...

Answered: Why are people theists? Why are people atheists ...

I'll answer for myself. I ascribe to the philosophy formally known as "Ignosticism". I believe that the only way to gain knowledge, is by pursuing the Scientific Method. Hence, the only way to settle ...

Answered: What is the origon of Barack Obama's name ?

No, but you're not too far off. Obama's first name stems from a Semitic root, and it means "the one who's blessed by God" in Swahili. Hear him explain so himself at http://www.youtube.com/watch ...

Answered: In Hebrew patranymics a son is denoted by Bin ...

Bat: Miryam Bat-Heli In Aramaic (supposedly Jesus's native tongue), son is "Bar": Yeshua Bar-Yosef. Daughter is "Bat", just as in Hebrew. As Oron mentioned, the normal form of son is "Ben", not ...

Answered: The "long Memorial Day weekend"

Thanks a lot, harryvan, most helpful.

Answered: Animals and souls

Animals don't go to heaven like humans do, because humans don't go to heaven in the first place. The reason humans don't go to heaven is because of their treatment of animals. Another reason why ...

Answered: Adding Subtitles to Video Clips

Thanks again. It appears a combination of "Subtitle Workshop" (http://www.urusoft.net/downloads.php?lang=1) and "Auto Gordian Knot" (http://www.autogk.me.uk/) should do the trick (http://blog.proud ...

Answered: Looking for the origin of a famous sentence

In an introduction to the song "Typically English", Dame Shirley Bassey made the following remark: "When i first arrived in America from England, I made a startling discovery: I noticed that the ...

Activity Summary

Topics of Interest

Contacts

berliita has no contacts.

Compliments

No compliments were posted on berliita's profile yet.