
- Aug 24, 2018
Writing Jewish Characters: Miscellaneous Rules of Observance
These are some basic observance rules of Judaism that your characters may or may not follow. I used to have these at the bottom of the Passover post, but it made more sense to put them into their own separate post. The No Work Rules The most Orthodox rules for keeping the Sabbath and major holidays, aka the “no work rules”: No work, which includes a whole bunch of things, many of which you will see in the next bullet points No actual work - as in, job and school No driving/r
- Mar 16, 2018
Code-Switching
randomnoteforfuturereference asked: So let's say you are writing a story where someone code-switches from English to a "right-to-left" language (eg Hebrew or Arabic). How can that be incorporated smoothly if the original script is stuck with (as opposed to a phonetic Romanization). Is it possible to have a sentence of that script in the same quote as English? That is possible, but complicated -- primarily because you have to make sure your keyboard works for both or use Word’