On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 11:04 PM, Arnaud Fournet
<fournet.arnaud AT wanadoo.fr>wrote:
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> From: "Will Parsons" <wbparsons AT alum.mit.edu>
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>> Sure it's possible. Let's see. Non-daghes daleth is pronounced [d] in
> Ashkenazic. German, Polish, Lithuanian, Russian &c. have no phoneme [ð].
> Yememite Hebrew has [ð] for non-daghesh daleth. Arabic had/has a phoneme
> [ð]. It *could* be coincidence...
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> yes there are plenty of coincidences.
> French is the only Romance language with ö and ü, next to a Germanic
> language with ö and ü, and next to a Uralic language with ö and ü.
> I don't think this is anything but a chance coincidence.
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> A
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You’re joking, right? After all the time that France was ruled by Germans,
even the name “France” is a German word.
French and German are the only two languages that I know (I don’t know more
than a few languages) that say “I am gone” (Ich bin gegangen, Je suis parti)
instead of “I have gone”.
Actually, this is a pretty good example of why we think that Masoretic
Hebrew reflects a millennium of accumulated mispronunciations, which is why
we believe if Elijah were to arrive to drink his cup, he most likely would
understand very little, if any, of modern Israeli.