Re: Language Corruption

On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Steg Belsky wrote:

> 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") !
Ah, so then would you propose that the alleged Elders of Zion do, in fact,
exist, but that they're merely disgruntled, deranged conlangers?  Watch
out, NGL group... you have stiff competition!  :)

Kenji Schwarz