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  • From: Yigal Levin <leviny1 AT mail.biu.ac.il>
  • To: b-hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Study on energic nun ter
  • Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 06:12:45 +0200

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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