From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: cowan@mercury.ccil.org (John Cowan) Date: Sat, 10 May 2014 19:41:20 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] An amusing error message In-Reply-To: <20140510233013.Horde.5bXDKJY0upPXRcotFXOX6w4@ssl.eumx.net> References: <20140509210729.6D80618C09B@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> <20140510002011.IEnjtHhZ%sdaoden@yandex.com> <8AE10DB9-3685-4E07-AA94-B991D41D8D9D@sdf.org> <20140510115158.x+L+UNYY%sdaoden@yandex.com> <20140510201801.GE17946@mercury.ccil.org> <20140510223942.e6o0M3U0%sdaoden@yandex.com> <20140510222034.GO17946@mercury.ccil.org> <20140510233013.Horde.5bXDKJY0upPXRcotFXOX6w4@ssl.eumx.net> Message-ID: <20140510234120.GS17946@mercury.ccil.org> 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