Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Karl Randolph" <kwrandolph AT email.com>]

George:

This advice, coming from a person who tries to claim that 
"feet" = "genitals" with no evidence for it other than 
overactive imaginations (of dirty old men?), it isn't very 
convincing.

For me, as a person who speaks fluent German, Cantonese, 
has a speaking knowledge of Norwegian, as well as a 
reading knowledge of French, who has studied other 
languages, the general rule that each lexeme has one 
meaning (with exceptions, subject to grammaticizations 
and figures of speach, of course) has stood me in good 
stead for learning and using languages. I see no reason 
why Hebrew should be different.

I'm not speaking as a translator, that's a whole different 
can of worms.

Karl W. Randolph.

----- Original Message -----
From: "George F Somsel" <gfsomsel AT juno.com>

> 
>...
> 
> Karl,
> 
> I would say that you need to relearn languages.  I know a few myself and
> I would say that your concept of one lexeme, one meaning is definitely
> wrong.
> 
> Much reading does not indicate much understanding.  I remember puzzling
> over the beginning of Kierkegaard's "Fear and Trembling" in college.  I
> would repeat the paragraph over and over and would still not comprehend.
> Get yourself a good lexicon and use it.
> 
> george
> gfsomsel
> ___________


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