Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] verb forms - Isaiah 56:6-7 was dying you shall die
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 11:32:30 +0100
On 19/04/2007 03:50, Isaac Fried wrote:
... Language was
created by utterly "primitive" people, and was developed by consensus
by still utterly simple minded, yet supremely practical, people
(unless you believe in its divine origin). ...
Isaac, you seem to assume here the old but generally discredited idea
(put forward originally by people who also tended to think that we
Aryans are less primitive than you Semites, a theory I utterly reject)
that "primitive" people in ancient times were less intelligent than
modern people. I don't think there is any evidence for this at least
since the emergence of Homo sapiens. So, unless you want to claim that
Hebrew was originally spoken by Neanderthals or other pre-sapiens
species of Homo, then you should not assume that any human language is
simple.