Biblical Hebrew Forum

[James Read <J.Read-2 AT sms.ed.ac.uk>]

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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