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  • From: Randall Buth <randallbuth AT gmail.com>
  • To: K Randolph <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>
  • Cc: B-Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Practical comparison and separation of modern and biblical Hebrew
  • Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 00:38:35 +0300

Well, in the above discussion on אני הולך it was the 'Russian' who
>>> incorrectly cried 'foul'.
>>>
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> Curious: in what way did the Russian incorrectly cry “foul”? What was
> incorrect? Do you have Biblical examples to back up how it was wrong?
>

It was the 'Russian' who claimed that in hearing participles in present
tense speech he "only heard" modern Hebrew, and that the Subject-Verb word
order was "English". The thread showed that those were traits of Biblical
Hebrew and were not grounds for criticism. I can't change BH to be different
from these in places where it isn't !



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> Randall Buth, PhD
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