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[Randall Buth <randallbuth AT gmail.com>]

PS: this referred to formations in Modern Hebrew as a
curiousity for this list.
To make make explicit what was implicit:
It was not recommended for a BH class.

[For BH one could get quite a bit closer, though
the need to speak computer-eez in BH doesn't exist:

 אם אינך רואה את הספר הזה הכה/פתח נא פה
]



On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 12:18 PM, Randall Buth <randallbuth AT gmail.com> wrote:
> Here is something from a recent email that illustrates
> how new words are being formed:
>
> אם אינך רואה מייל זה אנא הקלק כאן
>
> meyil is 'email'. Why not sefer, iggeret, mixtav? Because an email is
> special and could use a special word, here borrowed from Eng.
> (note the lack of article with noun and 'ze', something rare in BH, and
> not as common as "ha-X ha-ze' in standard Modern Hebrew.
> BenGurion would have loved the skipping of the 'et' marker for
> conciseness.)
>
> haqleq 'click' was chosen as hif`il. explicitly transitive.
>
> [kan 'here (very tight synonym to po פה) is a development from the
> BH word ko כה "thus" with a final nazalization, and an ancient
> Mishnaic neologism. ]
>
> The overall sentence structure would have been understood by
> Isaiah and Jeremiah  and Qohelet once they knew/saw the
> application and were sitting at a computer.
>
> shana tova
>
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