hebrewlatin responses.

James Forsyth james at bigbeing.com.au
Sat Mar 24 16:30:10 EST 2001


Hi all,

Thanks so much to all who have responded.

Charlie Perkins wrote:
 >Latin is a bit friendlier conjugating amo (I love) rather than ltq (I kill)!

I guess LUW isn't that friendly either come to think of it!  And having two 
vowels together may be confusing for beginning students needing to identify 
the stems of verbs.

 >6) By learning Latin, you would be staying within the family of

 >Indoeuropean languages. This may seem like an advantage to some, but
 >learning Hebrew gives you access to the family of Semitic languages. It's a
 >fairly close-knit family, so once you've got one nailed down, it doesn't
 >take a lot of work to move to others. Want to learn the earliest writing
 >system known to man? You can jump to Akkadian (or Phoenician, if you want
 >to stick with alphabetic systems). Want to study Patristics? It takes very
 >little to move from Hebrew (or any other Semitic language) into Syriac.
 >Interested in Talmud? Learn Hebrew's close cousin Aramaic, and you're only
 >a step or two away from Mishnaic Hebrew.

The surgeon of Crowthorn(e?)!  Perhaps the sorts of parties one would best 
be a hit at are barmitzvahs?  Certainly, the little I've known about Hebrew 
has proved to be a great conversation starter with Jewish people.

James Forsyth.




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