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  • From: "Dr. Joel M. Hoffman" <joel AT exc.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] etymology
  • Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2005 13:02:18 -0500 (EST)

> Also, Modern Hebrew "express" means "no or few stops on the way",
>not "local." If you go to http://www.egged.co.il/ and look up bus
>#394, for example, you'll see that it is listed as an "express" type
>bus even though it departs from Tel Aviv Central Bus Station to
>Eilat.

You're confused. You're thinking of MAHIR or YASHIR. The EXPRESS
busses make lots of stops. (Just look at how many stops #394 makes
along the way!)

This is exaclty the sort of confusion that results from assuming that
cognates (or borrowed words) mean the same thing in two different
languages.


-Joel M. Hoffman
http://www.exc.com/JoelHoffman





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