11 May
2014
11 May
'14
5:41 a.m.
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(a)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