Biblical Hebrew Forum

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

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Garth Grenache" <garthgrenache AT hotmail.com>
To: "Arnaud Fournet" <fournet.arnaud AT wanadoo.fr>; "b-hebrew" 
<b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2010 10:04 AM
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Blau's explanation for how ultimate stress became in 
Hebrew


> > This word <dinosaur> is completely artificial.
> > It proves nothing.
> > It's not even a true Greek word.
> > How can you dare infer anything out of that pseudo-"word"?
> > A.
> > ***

First of all, "dinosaur" is not a "completely artificial" word -- it is a 
coinage made up of too perfectly good Greek roots.  Secondly, whether 
borrowings or coinages, when words are introduced to a language from an 
external source, the words tend to be pronounced according to the rules of 
the receptor language (unless you get pedantic sorts, such as myself, that 
like to pronounce it as in the source language, to show how smart and 
high-falutin' we really are).

N.E. Barry Hofstetter
Classics and Bible Instructor, TAA
http://www.theamericanacademy.net
(2010 Savatori Excellence in Education Winner)
Mentor, TNARS
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