Jerry: On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 10:19 PM, Jerry Shepherd <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi Karl, > > > > Two responses for now. More to come after you've made your response to > no. (5). > > > > (5) What? No response to this one? I'd love to see it. J > I figured that as I was going from memory, and I no longer have access to a copy of the book, I can neither verify nor falsify my memory, so there’s no more that I can say. > > > (6) Karl, as I said, your proposed etymology is highly unlikely. Were > you aware that the batter in baseball was originally called a "striker"? And > that he was given a number of chances to make proper contact with the ball > when "striking" at it? And that there was an umpire who kept count of > these "strikes"? Karl, all you have done is create a false, unlikely, > and undemonstrable etymology. > In other words, you are arguing for the idea that I originally guessed at, namely that a “strike” does not mean to miss, rather it means an attempt to hit within a scoring area, or that the ball was delivered in such an area that such an attempt should have been made but wasn’t. You rejected this before, if I remember correctly, so now you push it? There is another use of “strike” with a form and meaning common to other Germanic languages, also used in other contexts in English, with a meaning of a negative mark or count against someone or something. An example is this headline “Awful derailment in Canada is another strike against tank car design: editorial” http://www.cleveland.com/opinion/index.ssf/2013/07/awful_derailment_in_canada_is.html Either way, “strike” does not mean “to miss”. The only reason this argument is being made in b-hebrew is so that you can argue that Hebrew words have widely varient meanings, even opposite meanings, without being homonyms or homographs. I read this as you wanting to play Humpty Dumpty with the text of Tanakh. Blessings, > > > > Jerry > > Jerry Shepherd > Taylor Seminary > Edmonton, Alberta > [email protected] > > > Karl W. Randolph.
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