From: cowan@mercury.ccil.org (John Cowan)
Subject: [TUHS] An amusing error message
Date: Sat, 10 May 2014 19:41:20 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140510234120.GS17946@mercury.ccil.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140510233013.Horde.5bXDKJY0upPXRcotFXOX6w4@ssl.eumx.net>
Kurt H Maier scripsit:
> I don't think there's any actual disagreement on your points, just a lot
> of useless syntactic fiddling. Claiming German isn't German because it's
> *different* German is going to lead to someone claiming by analogy that
> Beowulf isn't English, and then the world will end.
If this is addressed to me (there's no way to tell), I am not claiming
anything of the sort. Yiddish and German are sibling languages.
Yiddish has borrowed a lot of Hebrew, but is not genetically related
to it. That's all.
--
John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan at ccil.org
That you can cover for the plentiful and often gaping errors, misconstruals
and disinformation in your posts through sheer volume -- that is another
misconception. --Mike to Peter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-10 23:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-09 21:07 Noel Chiappa
2014-05-09 23:20 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2014-05-09 23:44 ` Gilbert Morgan
2014-05-10 10:51 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2014-05-10 15:05 ` Gregg Levine
2014-05-10 20:18 ` John Cowan
2014-05-10 21:39 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2014-05-10 22:20 ` John Cowan
2014-05-10 23:30 ` Kurt H Maier
2014-05-10 23:41 ` John Cowan [this message]
2014-05-11 5:14 ` Ori Idan
2014-05-11 6:00 ` John Cowan
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