Did you know that logomachy (pronounced: loh-gom-uh-kee) is a dispute about words? I did not know it until today.
Isaac Fried, Boston University On May 7, 2013, at 2:21 PM, Nir cohen - Prof. Mat. wrote: > isaac, > > you really outdid yourself this time! > > nir cohen > > > On Tue, 7 May 2013 11:53:04 -0400, Isaac Fried wrote >> .....But all this is of no interest to >> Hebrew, and will not be accepted, on emotional - ideological >> grounds, by the Europeans, the same way some people vehemently >> reject the idea that man evolved from ape. Will the English submit >> to the idea that their queen is speaking pidgin Hebrew? >> >> 2. The idea of Proto-Semitic was introduced into "Hebrew Studies" at >> the Hebrew University in Jerusalem by professors who were educated >> in Germany and Austria, where they picked it from the immutable >> prevailing belief in Proto-IE. They eagerly adopted it, I believe, >> to sound scientific, and thus gain acceptance. We don't need >> Germany's academic approval any more, possibly the reverse. >> >> 3. Aramaic appears to me to be but bastard Hebrew, and the genetic >> relationship between Hebrew and Arabic is a mystery, and so any >> search for a common ancestral language is, in my opinion, futile. I >> dismiss "Akkadian" and "Ugaritic" as they are but tentative >> languages, and of which I know nothing (and I don't think they are >> worth the effort to "study".) >> _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
