Biblical Hebrew Forum

[James Christian <jc.bhebrew AT googlemail.com>]

But you still haven't started Barry. To date you still haven't contributed
any input to the discussion whatsoever. No references to data. No logical
arguments constructed other than your view that we should 'trust the
experts'. My strong advice to you Barry is to go away and have a look at the
evidence for the 'cracking of the Akkadian system'. That's what I did after
Randall made such a heavy reliance on it for his arguments. I can't say I
was entirely surprised to see it lacked any foundation. In fact, I would
have been pleasantly surprised if it was the opposite.

And so my final earnest plea to you is this Barry. I'm sure you have lots of
knowledge that you could contribute to discussions to help us on the way to
understanding. So please make a contribution. This isn't a classroom with
one dictatorial teacher who leads the way and you have to sit silent and
take it all on trust. This is a place where we discuss things. So please
help make this list more active and interesting by giving some input with
content.

James Christian

2010/1/24 Barry <nebarry AT verizon.net>

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> From: "James Christian" <jc.bhebrew AT googlemail.com>
> Sent: Sunday, January 24, 2010 10:25 AM
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> To: "Barry" <nebarry AT verizon.net>
> Cc: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Language modelling
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>  Oh. And by the way Barry. History is full of the kind of students you
>> describe that were not satisfied with the conventional wisdom. Here's a
>> list
>> of a few of them you might have heard of:
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> I said that I would say no more, but just let me note here that yes, this
> does happen in some disciplines once very century or two.  Unfortunately, it
> also encourages a host of lesser lights to think that they shine at the same
> wattage.
>
> And now, I really am done.
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>
> N.E. Barry Hofstetter
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> Fecisti nos ad te et inquietum est cor nostrum, donec requiescat in te...
>   -- Augustine, Confessions 1:1
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> http://mysite.verizon.net/nebarry/
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