Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Barry" <nebarry AT verizon.net>]

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From: "James Christian" <jc.bhebrew AT googlemail.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 24, 2010 9:09 AM
To: "Barry" <nebarry AT verizon.net>
Cc: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Language modelling

> why don't you contribute to discussions? That's what we do here! We
> discuss
> things! It's not a classroom with a single teacher with authority to
> dictate
> what the students must learn. It's a place where we discuss things. If you
> don't like the direction discussions take. Then make an effort to direct
> discussions in the direction you would prefer. The amount of effort you
> have
> put into the direction of the discussions is indicative of the amount of
> effect you have had in steering that direction. That is to say - none.

My reading proficiency in Hebrew and Aramaic is pretty good.  My knowledge
of historical linguistics for Semitic languages is minimal, to say the 
least, and I have never
studied cognate languages such as Ugaritic or Akkadian.  However, I have
studied sufficiently for classical languages (by training I'm a classicist) 
that I can recognize the fact that you are whistling in the outer darkness 
somewhere left of Pluto in the Oort cloud.

You really need to listen to people who have studied these languages to a 
much higher level than either you or I.  Do you think that none of them have 
studied comparative historical Semitic linguistics?

N.E. Barry Hofstetter
Classics Instructor, The American Academy
http://www.theamericanacademy.net/
Mentor, The North American Reformed Seminary
http://tnars.net

And me:

http://mysite.verizon.net/nebarry
http://my.opera.com/barryhofstetter/blog