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  • From: "Ishinan" <ishinan AT comcast.net>
  • To: "b-hebrew" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [b-hebrew] OF "BASTARD" AND "TENTATIVE" LANGUAGES
  • Date: Thu, 9 May 2013 21:59:14 -0500

Isaac Fried wrote:  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".)
 
Ishinan: When debating any issue, there is an implicit burden of proof on the person asserting a claim. If I am not mistaken you've made four heavyweight allegations.
 
1- Claimed that Aramaic (a lingua franca of empires)  is a "bastard language".
2- Declared that the genetic relationship between Hebrew and Arabic is a mystery.
3- Flatly rebuked the search for a common ancestral language which you consider as "futile".
4- Dismissed Akkadian and Ugaritic as merely "tentative languages".
 
 
I have to admit I have never witnessed so many made up allegations, all casually divulged in such a short paragraph.
 
While you are at it, what are exactly your definitions for a "bastard language" and "tentative languages" ? Please elaborate.
    
 
 
Ishinan Ishibashi
 



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