Privman's Thoughts

"For any statement, as trivial as it may be, there exists a finite set of more trivial statements, from which it can be derived."

This is useful for people who write right-to-left sometimes, as is done in Hebrew, Arabic, Persian and other languages. So far I only have a solution for Firefox users, but I strongly recommend the browser to anyone. If you don't like 'messing around' with the computer and refuse to use anything but Internet Explorer, you're probably beyond my help anyway. Wait for Google fix this themselves, or write in English. So if you use Firefox, install the Clippings add-on from the Mozilla site: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1347 It's a good add-on. I recommend learning the basics of it for other uses as well. Now download the Clippings export file I made from http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=950ac357b5088b54d2db6fb9a8902bda It contains two clippings - 'RTL embed' and 'RTL end'. Each clipping is a single control character, U+202B and U+202C respectively, which start and terminate a region of RTL directionality. To import the file into Clipp...

I get asked this a lot. In fact, almost every Israeli who knows me well enough to feel comfortable asking this, did. If you know many Israelis, you'd realise that this means anyone who knows me at all (and some who don't really know me). So if you also asked me the same question, and instead of taking the time to explain myself again I just referred you here, please understand. I am really tired of answering this question again and again. So tired, I took the time to set up this FAQ. So the reason I don't use 'Nir' anymore, although it's the standard way to write my Israeli name in English, is that it causes people to pronounce it wrong. It's a bit hard to explain in writing, so feel free to skip the next paragraph and go straight to the links. The problem is that that letter 'i' rarely makes the sound we were taught it makes when we learnt the ABC in the fourth grade - the 'ea' or 'ee' or 'ie' sound (note to native English sp...