Why Use Graph Paper?

[iRabb]

Don't get me wrong; I certainly understand the value of the way graph paper is lined. But as far as quality goes, isn't it even thinner than copier paper and otherwise low quality stuff?

[pajaro]

I've had a pad of this stuff for about forty years and have used three sheets, for some math thing in a college course taken for the heck of it after getting out of the Air Force. It is cute to look at, all the nice blue squares. The paper is fairly heavy. Absolutely no idea.

[Moshe ben David]

Just like any other paper, "it depends". There is dirt cheap (and corresponding quality) and there is really good (e.g., Rhodia or Clairfontaine), and there are many in between. You can also find paper called 'engineering paper' which has a grid on one side and just lines on the other; often this is very good quality; also there are bound lab notebooks which are quadrille (graph) that are really good quality.

 

And of course YMMV depending on which ink, how you write, etc.

 

Just sayin'

[iRabb]

Thank you.

 

Isn't your quote from Psalm 121?

[brewsky]

I use graph paper only.. I strictly use rhodia. Quality of paper is perfect for me. I see very minimal bleed through with flex pens. I mostly use ef nibs so I see no see through with those.

[Ursus]

Verse 4. I simply love Hebrew!

[iRabb]

וגם אני אוהב עברית

[Ursus]

 

וגם אני אוהב עברית

 

I'm glad that we agree on that! It is funny - as I am used to Biblical Hebrew I was confused by אוהב, but of cause it is a paal/qal/G-Stamm participium written plene - which is a common enough way to represent the present in the semitic languages. I did want to get more into modern Hebrew - it is so fascinating! Alas, everyone here (in Denmark) is speaking Danish! One of my old professors wrote his PhD thesis (in Jerusalem) on the Hebrew verbal system but I mostly got to discuss wisdom literature and Aramaic with him.

[iRabb]

I am also far more used to Biblical and Rabbinic Hebrew. Whenever I am in Israel, someone will say, "You are an American rabbi."

 

"How do you know?"

 

"Because you talk like Moses."

 

Oh, well. There are worse things.

[Ursus]

 

I am also far more used to Biblical and Rabbinic Hebrew. Whenever I am in Israel, someone will say, "You are an American rabbi."

 

"How do you know?"

 

"Because you talk like Moses."

 

Oh, well. There are worse things.

 

I simply love that remark!

 

I was taught (Biblical) Hebrew by a wonderful woman who, after some years in a kibbutz, had studied theology in Jerusalem, but who thought that she'd better stick to teaching the language and therefore never talked about theology at all. She did, however, have a brilliant collection of remarks made by a number of the great old rabbis on anything with no theological significance what so ever - like whether Egypt was actually covered by one single giant frog. - So in the end she taught rabbinic humour too.