Biblical Hebrew Forum

[fred burlingame <tensorpath AT gmail.com>]

Hello Nir:

Is not this, including but not limited to, your post,  ... the entire &
complete purpose of this forum?

proverbs 27:17

in its best manifestation?

regards,

fred burlingame

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 8:24 PM, Nir cohen - Prof. Mat. 
<nir AT ccet.ufrn.br>wrote:

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> isaac, fred,
>
> on the esthetic level, i have no problem with fred's constructions.
> but as a scientist i cannot relate to them for (at least) four
> reasons: 1) he makes a heavy a priori hypothesis, to wit,
>
> > "but you need to trust that Hebrew is fully and entirely systematic."
>
> 2) he makes gross simplifications, strating with:
>
> > "First you look at the single-consonant ( I consider
> aleph, ayin, and a final he as just filler letters) verbs, for
> instance: ABAH (root B),..."
>
> and going through a free association of similar sounding consonants.
>
> 3) he ignores a long lasting linguistic reseach on the semitic languages.
>
> 4) his dialectic is on the metaphysical, rather than factual, level.
>
> in addition, the following is my personal view. isaac allows for
> vowel fuzziness (letters A,H,W,Y) which reflects precisely the
> fuzziness of the western, alfabetic semitic dialects. and his
> consonant fuzziness is exactly the one represented in akkadian and ugarit
> cuneiform. so, as hebrew was formed amidst all these influences, it
> also acquired these two types of fuzziness, explaining isaac's "hits".
> his "misses" are a result of his belief that this fuzziness is, by
> itself, a universal law, e.g. declaring a moratorium on all auxiliary
> AHWY letters, identifying all S,$ and C,Z pairs, etc.
>
> nir cohen
>
>
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