Beat the odds by learning a language? These ancient Literate Ladies did… with Action Items!
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I enjoyed writing this post so much that I thought I’d repost it with some action items, now that I am relearning a few computer languages to get back in to my old line of work (Women in STEM rocked back in the late 80’s, kids!!): 1.) learn a word that sounds the same, but means something different in two ‘neighboring’ languages, like French and Spanish: Si!! Or Greek and Turkish: Nai!!/Ne?? Then: (2.) spend 5 minutes journaling about how that word could cause major misunderstandings between two neighboring countries!!
Talk amongst yourselves -about your Public Library’s online catalogue!!
Ask Tamar, Ruth, and Scheherazade.
רֶגַע… Rega… Wait, you say:
Scheherazade is not in the Bible, she is from the Thousand and One Nights, originally in Arabic, or maybe partly in Persian, but certainly not in Hebrew;
This, you remember!
Ok, point taken, her book was not in Hebrew, but Arabic is a sister language. More on this shortly…
Tamar was a Canaanite woman, and so had to learn Hebrew, or Judah’s dialect of Hebrew at the very least.
Ruth, a native of Moab, had to learn the Hebrew of the time of Naomi.
Scheherazade, at the palace, had to learn the hardest languages of all: the languages of heartbreak, of story, and of love.
So, you see, Scheherazade’s story is the same as that of her Biblical sisters: she was a clever woman faced with a survival situation in a man’s world. And she, like her sisters, had to learn a language in order to survive.
Each lady had to live by her wits in difficult times, and to use the tools available to her at that time. Nowadays, they would surely go together to the Public Library to learn to use the power of modern tools like computers and smartphones, especially using Unix to navigate this new world. And as they succeeded then, so would succeed again, using adaptability, daring, and hope.
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ShiraDest
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1. #libraries,
2. #ProBono legal aid and Education,
3. #UniversalHealthCare , and
4. good #publictransport
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Originally published at http://shiradest.wordpress.com on April 20, 2020.
