Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Yigal Levin <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>]

Dear Isaac,

While your right to argue your very unconventional ideas about the Hebrew 
language on this list has been consistently defended by the moderators, 
remarks of yours like those below do not add to the scholarly nature of the 
debate. Picking out and ridiculing a previous poster's choice of words, 
rather than contending with the arguments themselves, simply makes it 
impossible to carry on a discussion with you. If you do wish to keep posting 
on this list, please address the issues at hand.

Yigal Levin

co-moderator

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Isaac Fried" <if AT math.bu.edu>
To: "b-hebrew Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Cc: "b-hebrew Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 5:44 AM
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Study on energic nun ter


> The "energic nun is a morpheme which is gradually dying out in BH."
> Is this what the "energic nun" is, a dying nun? Or is the slow death
> only incidental to its nature?
>
> Isaac Fried, Boston University
>
> On Dec 2, 2007, at 8:07 PM, David Kummerow wrote:
>
> > > Pere,
> > >
> > > Do you really believe that the ancient Hebrews had something that we
> > > are compelled to fancifully call today "energic nun"?
> >
> > Yes -- but I'd drop the words "are compelled to fancifully".
> >
> >
> > > You are saying
> > > that this nun is inserted.
> >
> > Don't know what you mean by "inserted". If you mean something like
> > that
> > energic nun is a morpheme which is gradually dying out in BH and it is
> > consequently somewhat "optional", then yes, it is inserted.
> >
> > > But is it not the reverse, namely, that  this
> > > nun was there in the first place and then over time dropped out
> > > of the
> > > form?
> >
> > Yes, the morpheme was there and was gradually dying out.
> >
> > Should we then mark and call the vacated spot "the  dropped
> > > energic nun fault line", or something else to this effect?
> >
> > No, of course not.
> >
> > > Isaac Fried, Boston University
> >
> > Regards,
> > David Kummerow.
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