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  • From: "Nir cohen - Prof. Mat." <nir AT ccet.ufrn.br>
  • To: Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [b-hebrew] IE
  • Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 16:21:06 -0200

isaac,

you really outdid yourself this time!

nir cohen


On Tue, 7 May 2013 11:53:04 -0400, Isaac Fried wrote
>.....But all this is of no interest to
> Hebrew, and will not be accepted, on emotional - ideological
> grounds, by the Europeans, the same way some people vehemently
> reject the idea that man evolved from ape. Will the English submit
> to the idea that their queen is speaking pidgin Hebrew?
>
> 2. The idea of Proto-Semitic was introduced into "Hebrew Studies" at
> the Hebrew University in Jerusalem by professors who were educated
> in Germany and Austria, where they picked it from the immutable
> prevailing belief in Proto-IE. They eagerly adopted it, I believe,
> to sound scientific, and thus gain acceptance. We don't need
> Germany's academic approval any more, possibly the reverse.
>
> 3. Aramaic appears to me to be but bastard Hebrew, and the genetic
> relationship between Hebrew and Arabic is a mystery, and so any
> search for a common ancestral language is, in my opinion, futile. I
> dismiss "Akkadian" and "Ugaritic" as they are but tentative
> languages, and of which I know nothing (and I don't think they are
> worth the effort to "study".)
>





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