Re: Ah-ha! New computer, YANC and fluency
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, April 12, 2000, 23:50 |
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On Wed, 12 Apr 2000 20:33:45 +0200 BP Jonsson <bpj@...> writes:
> Has anyone ever got in their head to become fluent in a dead
> language? (Latin and Sanskrit of course don't count! Neither do
> already
> resurrected languages like Hebrew.)
> /BP
> B.Philip Jonsson <mailto:bpj@...>bpj@netg.se
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Ever since i started to like studying Talmud a few years ago i've wanted
to be able to speak Talmudic Judeo-Aramaic. One problem is that from the
way that books like _Grammar for Gemara_ describe the language, there
were probably a whole bunch of dialects working at once, each one closer
to or farther from Hebrew. And, there is no consensus as to how the
words were pronounced due to the fact that the Talmud wasn't recorded
with vowel points.
-Stephen (Steg)
"do not fear night-terrors, nor arrows that fly by night."