From: "Arnaud Fournet" <fournet.arnaud AT wanadoo.fr>
To: "K Randolph" <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>
Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Yemenite Hebrew
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2010 20:38:55 +0100
From: K Randolph
Anraud:
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Arnaud in fact.
A.
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K. R wrote:
You’re joking, right? After all the time that France was ruled by Germans,
even the name “France” is a German word.
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Germans??
As far as I know Germans ruled only four years...
France is a Frankish word, not a German word.
In addition Frankish is not the only Germanic language of the invaders:
Flemish, Burgundian, Wisigoth, etc are represented.
In all cases, how long do you think they kept their languages alive?
As far as I know, none of the numerous Germanic loanwords has the second
German Lautveschiebung.
A.
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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”.
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I suppose all Romance languages do the same: intransitive verbs of movement
take "to be".
Sono venuto, andato, etc.
I suppose it's directly inherited from Latin.
A.
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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.
Karl W. Randolph.
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I seriously doubt it is anywhere close to being a "pretty good example".