"זאת לא חיה ממולאת, היא אמיתית!"
Translation:This isn't a stuffed animal, it's real!
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לא אומרים "חיה ממולאת", זה תרגום ישיר מאנגלית ואין את זה בעברית. הדבר הנכון לומר במשפט זה הוא "בובת חיה" או משהו בסגנון. בהקשר כללי, עוד מילה נכונה היא "פוחלץ".
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אני דיווחתי. לא הייתי משתמש במילה פוחלץ. פוחלץ זה עור אמיתי של חיה ממולא . זה מה שטקסידרמיסט עושה, לא צעצוע לילדים
Are we speaking about the difference between a stuffed animal made by a taxidermist and a living animal or between a cuddly toy in form of an animal and a stuffed toy made by a taxidermist out of a real animal?
Why can't you use a personal pronoun, such as 'she'? If this is a real animal, it has a gender, in this case, she.
Well, I think you could, but the feminine gender of the word חַיָּה strongly suggests, that חִיא refers back to that noun.
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The thing you make with taxidermy is called puxlatz - פוחלץ
The act of making them is pix-lutz פיחלוץ.
I'm not aware of a Hebrew word for the art of making them, so probably טקסידרמיה
Well, a word with a funny history: Its one appeareance in the Mishnah Kelim 24 (וְהַפֻּחְלָץ שֶׁל גְּמַלִּים, טָהוֹר מִכְּלוּם and a camel's rope bag is free from all uncleanness), where it means a sort of bag loaded on a camel's back, is thought to be scribal error for an original פָּחֲלִין (the plural of פֹּ֫חַל), i.e. that someone misread ין for an ץ! And פֹּ֫חַל, the real word for this loaded bag, was loaned from Akkadian puḫalu via Syriac ܦܳܚܠܬܳܐ, meaning testicle, because the double bag suggested their shape. Hilarious, how some new words for new concepts lke taxidermy are born by sheer writing errors.