Which, btw, is the forum that replaced the B-Greek mailinglist.
- Daniel Lundsgaard Skovenborg
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> From: B Chan <[email protected]>
>To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>Sent: Sunday, May 12, 2013 3:33 AM
>Subject: [b-hebrew] FW: Is the b-hebrew list slipping?
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>Quite apart from the current controversy, another perspective?
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>Maybe the list is attracting less participation because of the format. Mailing
>lists are on the decline, while forums and tweets are more in fashion. An
>example of a forum: http://www.ibiblio.org/bgreek/forum
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>Betty Chan
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>Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 17:58:47 -0700
>From: [email protected]
>To: [email protected]
>CC: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Is the b-hebrew list slipping?
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>Uri:
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>I can see the desires of the moderators who want to allow other voices to be
>heard, voices that may be excluded from other fora because they are
>politically incorrect. Yet, at the same time they want this to be a scholarly
>interchange. That’s a tough balance to maintain.
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>Unfortunately, perhaps, that means that we as individuals need to learn to
>police ourselves. One of those is to recognize who is incorrigible and then
>resist the temptation to correct them when they make off-the-wall statements.
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>On Friday, May 10, 2013, Uri Hurwitz wrote:
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> The writer of the following enjoys displaying his ignorance, and has done
>this for years in this list:
>>
>> "...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".)
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>> Isaac Fried, Boston University ".
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>> He is not the only one on this list.
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>> The worst consequence is that such nonsense drives away serious scholars
>>in the field who in the past used to contribute here.
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>> Further, quite a few members are dissipating energy responding to the
>>drivel, although it is best to ignore it. I'm speaking from experience.
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>I take it a step further—I don’t even read their postings, so spare myself
>even of thinking about how wrong they are. That also spares me of the thoughts
>of trying to correct them.
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>> Sadly, this list is slipping.
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>Too many strong egos, wanting to be correct? And to correct? How long would
>they stay if no one but the moderators answered them, and the moderators only
>to shut down threads where they are the only contributer?
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>> Uri Hurwitz
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>Karl W. Randolph.
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