On 10/29/07, Isaac Fried wrote:
Yitzhak,
Your statement to the effect that "Modern spoken Hebrew is a hybrid
language" is not only baseless and senseless, but is also an outright
religiously motivated sectarian diatribe. It provides good indication as to
the quality and sincerely of everything else you say, here and elsewhere.
You can read the following on these issues:
http://biblical-studies.ca/blog/wp/2006/11/30/hebrew-or-israeli- linguistics-and-zionism/
Abba, Why was Prof. Higgins Trying to teach Eliza to speak like our
cleaning lady:
http://www.zuckermann.org/pdf/abba.pdf
Israeli as a Semi-Engineered Semito-European Language:
http://www.zuckermann.org/pdf/multiple-causation.pdf
Now, I don't know if I accept Zuckerman's analysis of Modern Hebrew completely,
and I definitely feel that he is mistaken on many details regarding
Biblical Hebrew,
but it is clear that Modern Hebrew is not simply a continuation of Mishnaic
Hebrew, but also has a lot of debt to Yiddish.
There is also a chapter on Israeli Hebrew in The Semitic Languages, ed.
Hetzron, 1997 by Ruth Berman.
Yitzhak Sapir
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