Hebrew Fun Pun of the Day

Misc. | May 16, 2023 | Ezekiel

[Ezekiel]

It's like the Do Re Mi song, what Maria said:

"Do-re-mi-fa-so and so on are only the tools we use to build a song. Once you have them in your heads you can sing a million different tunes, by mixing them up. Like this: "

(For some reason, the clip begins with Esther, known as the "Doe of the Dawn.")

Puns: no rules, just riiight...

Pun.

In Hebrew it's the phrase "play on words" [מִשְׂחָק מִלִים] or lit. "tongue (language) falling upon tongue" [לָשׁוֹן נוֹפֵל עַל לָשׁוֹן ].

However, pun (and also fun) is written (transliterated) as:

פאן

(An alef is used for a short u vowel.)

Same spelling as the god "Pan", meaning "all" as per the folk etymology that his mother Penelope (the dryad) really got around.

To pan something is to disapprove, belittle, disparage, boo, vociferously reject. It's a loaf of bread, or a face/mug. The word covers the earth with all of its meanings. Hebrew for a face is panim, a plurality of pans.

By extension, funny (or punny) is spelled like this:

פאני

Imagine the outrage should the holy tongue be the language of Punish, because those who reject it will end up on the receiving end. It's the simple meaning of "punish".

Could be brutal, depending on one's perspective, because puns are the lowest form of humor.

A Hebrew pattern for forming names of languages is to add a tav suffix to the name of the people who speak it. Hebrew or English: Ivri/Ivrit, Angli/Anglit etc.

It follows that the funny punny [פאני] people would speak punit (pun-EAT), which would be spelled as:

פאנית

= 541

The same sum as Israel [ישראל].

In Isaac is Abraham's seed called (Gen 21:12), and the name Isaac means "he will laugh".

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Here's an octave, bookended by the double Dos [דו, דו] as in the fixed do Solfège (where "do" is always C-natural):

[Do] re mi fa sol la si [Do]

re [רה] mi [מי] fa [פה] sol [סול] la [לה] si [סי]

205 + 50 + 85 + 96 + 35 + 70 = 541

It turns out that in Yiddish (language of the Jews, the Yidden), pan [פּאַן] and pani [פּאַני] are Mr. and Mrs. respectively. Of Polish derivation from the master.

Before people got offended by everything in sight, Polish people used to be a primary subject of light-hearted jokes.

Which fits right in because of what Bobby Vinton famously sang, the Beer Barrel Polka:

There's a garden, what a garden
Only happy faces bloom there
And there's never any room there
For a worry or a gloom there

Oh there's music and there's dancing
And a lot of Polish people
When they play the polka
They all get in the swing...

Bobby Vinton - Beer Barrel Polka (1975)

[Ezekiel]

I don't know the answer to the easy way she's opened every door in my mind
And dreaming is as easy as believing that it's never gonna end
Loving her was easier than anything I'll ever do again

The Highwaymen performing "Loving Her Was Easier (Than Anything I'll Ever Do Again)"
from American Outlaws: Live at Nassau Coliseum, 1990

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Re Willie's guitar solo on Trigger, Kris is in awe. "That's my song!"

Taken to new heights.

~ EZ

[Ezekiel]

Yeah, I'm probably stepping in it here, but this not-so lengthy thread subject was inspired by the comments on yesterday's post,

Quantum Experiment Shows How Einstein Was Wrong About One Thing

That's the reason I'm pinging you folks.

It was mostly for adorno's post 13 about that one "Adam" so to speak, because it summed up the basis for my many posts over space time:

All matter in the universe is interconnected, therefore, it's all entangled.

One particle in any part of the universe is at all times, interacting with any other particle in any other part of the universe, and all particles in the universe are all interacting. There is no particle in the universe which does not "know" about every other particle.

We all (people and everything) did come from the one single first particle that started the whole universe. If everything is derived from the one single particle that comprises the whole universe, then of course, all things in the universe are entangled.

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On that note:

1. The soul of Mashiach has two dimensions. One is the enlightenment that all of creation will enjoy; and one is that there will be an individual (or a couple) that will master mind and master heart this giant planetary-scale project of coordinating all of humanity into a single, smoothly operating organism, that will run as efficiently as a person's body.

Glass-Half-Empty Consciousness of Tisha b'Av
We weep for the sorry state of our reality, yet find a way to embrace the present with unconditional acceptance.