To: fred burlingame <tensorpath AT gmail.com>, B-Hebrew <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] hearing vs. reading
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 20:24:03 +0000
I don’t see how your conclusion flows from the data, Fred. Just because
people cannot write doesn’t mean they don’t get subtleties in the language
they use every day. Quite the opposite. As native speakers of Hebrew, they
would have been far quicker on the uptake than all of us.
GEORGE ATHAS
Moore Theological College (Sydney, Australia)
www.moore.edu.au