Re: Language Corruption
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
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| Date: | Tuesday, January 26, 1999, 17:02 |
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On Tue, 26 Jan 1999 08:03:26 -0800 Peter Clark <pc451@...> writes:
>---Garrett <alkaline@...> wrote:
>> Here's my theory: Languages are becoming more corrupted through
>time. Look
>> at the languages of today - they have all sorts of idiosyncracies,
>> irregularities, idioms, and stuff like that. Look at the ancient
>languages
>> like Latin or Greek - they may have a bunch of cases and stuff, but
>at
>> least they're regular, AFAIK.
> Dude, break out the asbestos underwear, because your fanny is about
>to get flamed! That's a very old idea that has been disproved time and
>time again, yet keeps crawling to the surface every now and again
>until someone beats it back. And I don't know how much Greek or Latin
>you have studied, but in my limited study, I have found that
>chock-full of irregularities, idiosyncracies, and idioms. But I'll let
>an expert handle that. (Hark! Is that Ray Brown and John Cowan I hear
>approaching? :)
> I, on the other hand, am going to crawl into a tight corner and
>wait until the Holy War has come to an end.
> :Peter
Tsk, tsk...this all came about because you people are concentrating on
sissy languages like Latin and Greek. Study a *real* language, like
Hebrew, and you won't have these problems! It's chock full of
idiosyncracies, irregularities, and idioms! Any language where you can
arbitrarily ADD or DROP sounds from the ends of words can't be all that
regular (oshivah = oshiv, meqimi = meiqim, yehi = yihyeh...). Not to
mention idioms....Hebrew even propogates this "vile" language-corruption
by spreading idioms to other languages ("skin of my teeth", etc.) not to
mention expressions that forment unnatural constructions in innocent
languages ("song of songs", "holy of holies") !
tehhi ha`ivrit! :)
-Stephen (Steg)
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