> Dear Conlang List Group Members:
> On the MSN Group "LINGUISTICS & LANGUAGES" General messages board is a
> thread entitled "Is Hebrew Asian Greek?". You can find its URL here
> below:
>
http://groups.msn.com/LINGUISTICSLANGUAGES/general.msnw?
> action=get_message&mview=0&ID_Message=306
> Some of its messages contain the following two URLs:
>
http://www.helleniclanguage.gr/yahuda.htm
>
http://www.grecoreport.com/hebrew_is_greek.htm
> One of its messages also contains the following quote:
> "Semerano's work has revolutionized etymological linguistics."
> The last two URLs mentioned have blurbs about books by Yahuda and
> Levin that say similar things about their work.
> The thing is; in a questionnaire I once saw on "are you a crackpot?",
> saying such things about yourself added to a positive score leading to
> a heightened probability that yes, indeed, your pot was cracked.
> I have never heard of Semerano, nor of Saul Levin, nor of Konstantinos
> G. Georgansa, nor of Joseph Yahuda.
> I wish members closer to Oxbridge, or to places where Greek and/or
> Hebrew are L1s, will tell me whether and/or by how much, each of these
> men is a cracked pot.
> And, who is Semerano, and did he or she (or possibly it or they)
> really revolutionize anything, or is Amedeo talking through his hat,
> as I frequently do?
> Thanks,
> Tom H.C. in MI