Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter_Kirk AT SIL.ORG]

Please, Dave and everyone, note that the quotation below was taken 
from an E-mail beginning "Dear John" and in reply to John Ronning not 
to Dave Washburn. The hypothetical assertion that "that no words or 
grammatical forms mean anything at all, everything was pragmatics" was 
not intended to represent anyone in particular's views, certainly not 
Dave's.

And please take note of such marks as ;-( as not entirely serious. I 
recognise that English is a worldwide language and no-one from any one 
country or social and educational stratum can dictate what is correct. 
My serious point was that there is clearly no worldwide agreement over 
the acceptability of Dave's "I forgot my checkbook" example.

Peter
  

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Subject: Re[3]: Gen 4:1, X + qatal (Peter, Bryan)
Author:  dwashbur AT nyx.net at internet
Date:    13/02/1999 11:44


Peter,
> But I must disagree with your: "the view that wayyiqtol is unmarked
> for sequence explains 100% of the data!". On the contrary, it explains 
> nothing at all! Or have I explained 100% of biblical Hebrew if I
> assert that no words or grammatical forms mean anything at all,
> everything was pragmatics? It is safe to say "I don't know what this 
> means" as no-one can contradict you; but it is not an alternative
> explanatory hypothesis.

I don't know why you keep making such statements as "no words 
or grammatical forms mean anything at all, everything was
pragmatics."  I would hope to have shown you by now that this is 
NOT my view.  I would sincerely appreciate it if you would refrain 
from misrepresenting me like this from now on.

> Would you accept Dave's "I forgot my checkbook" example in South 
> Africa too? What is the English language coming to? ;-(

Now who's making value judgments?
Dave Washburn
http://www.nyx.net/~dwashbur
A Bible that's falling apart means a life that isn't.

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