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  • From: James Christian <jc.bhebrew AT googlemail.com>
  • To: K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>
  • Cc: B-Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] question
  • Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:32:13 +0100

The problem here is that we need someone who knows modern Hebrew as well to
show Randall where things don't work in b-hebrew. Otherwise, he won't value
their opinion.

James Christian

2009/10/22 K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>

> Randall:
> (This continues a discussion of the claim that those who know modern Hebrew
> will have a harder time internalizing Biblical Hebrew correctly. This
> discussion was started off list, but I thought it may be a catalyst to
> further discussion for the whole group, hence I brought it on list.)
>
> To those of you who are just joining this discussion, what do you think of
> Randall’s sentence below? Does it sound unnatural as it does to me? Why or
> why not?
>
> On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Randall Buth <randallbuth AT gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 5:07 PM, K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> Randall:
> >>
> >>
> > On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Randall Buth <randallbuth AT gmail.com
> >wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 5:30 PM, K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>
> >>> wrote:
> >>> > Randall:
> >>> >
> >>> > On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 1:41 PM, Randall Buth <randallbuth AT gmail.com
> >
> >>> wrote:
> >>> >>
> >>> >> אם חפצתי לכתב את הספר הזה בשפת כנען עלי לכתב ככה ויכלנו הסיף עוד
> לשלח
> >>> >> ספרים.
> >>> >> יוחנן
> >>> >>
> >>> > I don’t know what sort of Hebrew that is, but Biblical Hebrew it
> ain’t.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> > That is a rather decisive statement for someone who gets the details
> > wrong below.
>
>




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