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  • From: "Barry" <nebarry AT verizon.net>
  • To: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Language modelling
  • Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2010 10:05:32 -0500



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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




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