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TV tropes is extremely addictive and causes "the wiki walk" more than the very Wikipedia itself. It's far more susceptible for a reader to fall victim to it on that site.

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Out of curiosity, do you read in Hebrew and speak it fluently?

Just curious because it's possible to have a decent grasp of literacy in a language but not quite to the point of being fully fluent in it if you're using it every now and then in America rather than on an everyday basis.

My former English teacher said that the Israeli's speak Yiddish not Hebrew and that Hebrew is a dead language like Latin and no one speaks it anymore. I showed evidence in the form of numerous stuff on reliable sources on the internet and she still claimed Yishish was the national language of Israel and no one spoke Hebrew. 

Yiddish is a pidgin language. Hebrew has multiple forms (akin to Greek) depending on which era the speaker is in. I've studied ancient Greek (Koine) and it's pretty different from modern Greek.

There's five main forms of Greek:

Classical Greek (think of Homer's Odyssey),
then a more simple dialect evoking from Classical -> Koine Greek, used in the Hellenistic era (Alexander the Great), and the Bible, so forth
Byzantine Greek, coming from the Koine Greek
Medieval Greek, from Byzantine - found in quite many papers but not popular as Medieval Latin, of course
Modern Greek, from... you guess it.

Clearly, your teacher didn't understand the difference.

"Yiddish" reminds me of Vladik Speilman in Maus comic by Art Speilman.

Been listening to Miracles by Coldplay, in movie Unbroken. Always inspires me; at least the Official Lyric Video does.