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  • From: Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>
  • To: "Nir cohen - Prof. Mat." <nir AT ccet.ufrn.br>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] IE
  • Date: Tue, 7 May 2013 16:06:25 -0400

Did you know that logomachy (pronounced: loh-gom-uh-kee) is a dispute about words? I did not know it until today.

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On May 7, 2013, at 2:21 PM, Nir cohen - Prof. Mat. wrote:

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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