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  • From: Gary Hedrick <GaryH AT cjfm.org>
  • To: "b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] question
  • Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:11:26 -0500

Here's a better way to say it in modern Hebrew (below, courtesy of a friend in Israel). The message is something like this: "If I wanted to write this book in the Canaanite language, I need to write it this way. And we could add more..."

אם רציתי לכתוב את הספר הזה בשפה הכנענית אני צריך לכתוב ככה ויכלנו להוסיף עוד

Gary Hedrick

On Oct 21, 2009, at 7:46 PM, K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com> wrote:

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?
(cut for brevity)



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