Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Blau's explanation for how ultimate stress became in Hebrew
Date: Sat, 07 Aug 2010 10:31:55 -0400
----- Original Message -----
From: "Garth Grenache" <garthgrenache AT hotmail.com>
To: "Arnaud Fournet" <fournet.arnaud AT wanadoo.fr>; "b-hebrew"
<b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 07, 2010 10:04 AM
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Blau's explanation for how ultimate stress became in
Hebrew
This word <dinosaur> is completely artificial.
It proves nothing.
It's not even a true Greek word.
How can you dare infer anything out of that pseudo-"word"?
A.
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First of all, "dinosaur" is not a "completely artificial" word -- it is a
coinage made up of too perfectly good Greek roots. Secondly, whether
borrowings or coinages, when words are introduced to a language from an
external source, the words tend to be pronounced according to the rules of
the receptor language (unless you get pedantic sorts, such as myself, that
like to pronounce it as in the source language, to show how smart and
high-falutin' we really are).