[b-hebrew] Two X letters
Isaac Fried
if at math.bu.edu
Mon Oct 29 15:52:39 EST 2007
Yitzhak,
Being fluent in both Hebrew and Yiddish I know that Zuckerman's claim
is inherently wrong. Also your claim that Hebrew owes "a lot of debt
to Yiddish" is not, in my knowledge, even remotely substantiated. And
what is "a lot", does this constitute a measure for something?
Isaac Fried, Boston University
On Oct 29, 2007, at 11:17 AM, Yitzhak Sapir wrote:
> On 10/29/07, Isaac Fried wrote:
>> Yitzhak,
>>
>> Your statement to the effect that "Modern spoken Hebrew is a hybrid
>> language" is not only baseless and senseless, but is also an outright
>> religiously motivated sectarian diatribe. It provides good
>> indication as to
>> the quality and sincerely of everything else you say, here and
>> elsewhere.
>
> You can read the following on these issues:
> http://biblical-studies.ca/blog/wp/2006/11/30/hebrew-or-israeli-
> linguistics-and-zionism/
> Abba, Why was Prof. Higgins Trying to teach Eliza to speak like our
> cleaning lady:
> http://www.zuckermann.org/pdf/abba.pdf
> Israeli as a Semi-Engineered Semito-European Language:
> http://www.zuckermann.org/pdf/multiple-causation.pdf
>
> Now, I don't know if I accept Zuckerman's analysis of Modern Hebrew
> completely,
> and I definitely feel that he is mistaken on many details regarding
> Biblical Hebrew,
> but it is clear that Modern Hebrew is not simply a continuation of
> Mishnaic
> Hebrew, but also has a lot of debt to Yiddish.
>
> There is also a chapter on Israeli Hebrew in The Semitic Languages,
> ed.
> Hetzron, 1997 by Ruth Berman.
>
> Yitzhak Sapir
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