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  • From: James Read <J.Read-2 AT sms.ed.ac.uk>
  • To: Yitzhak Sapir <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Hebrew as a holy language
  • Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 14:20:02 +0100

Hi Yitzhak,

I just applied a linguistic analysis of the English language according to email evidence. The results of my find showed that the English language has two definite articles 'the' and 'teh'. I tried to discern rules as to their usage but found that there are no definitively characteristic usage patterns and the two terms seem to be used interchangeably.

So, I dug a little further and it would seem that the article 'teh' comes from language X. I therefore conclude the English were invaders of the British isles and that their original language was language X. After a generation or two of occupation in the British isles they adopted the Britanic language which is the same as English. Their original language X was completely different and from a totally different language group (non-Germanic). Unfortunately we have no manuscript evidence of the invaders speaking language X because they had already adopted the Britannic language before they started to write anything. However, the survival of the article 'teh' from language X shows, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that their original language was language X.

We do have some documents making a claim that the English invaders were of Germanic descent but I am not willing to consider the historicity of these claims because the document is of religious origin and, therefore, suspicious. The survival of the article 'teh' conclusively proves the inaccuracy of these reports and the invaders were non-Germanic.

James Christian





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