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To: michael97123 who wrote (96683)	4/28/2003 3:13:43 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

No it does not include me and even if it did one person does not change the statistical sample. Not to mention I very much oppose the regime in Iran so if you included me, you'd still get a biased sample!

To: michael97123 who wrote (96683)	4/28/2003 3:35:46 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 281500

Yes, Hebrew and Arabic are both Semitic languages and many words have common roots, which make it easier to learn, eg. "he wrote" in Hebrew is "katav" in Arabic is "kataba". The sounds of the language are rather different now. e.g. Hebrew has a "p" and "b" sounds, Arabic has only "b", so I think it's quite hard for Israelis and Arabs to speak the other language with a good accent. The sound and grammar of Israeli Hebrew are linguistically a little odd as both were somewhat "Indo-Europeanized" (made more like European languages) during the course of the revival of Hebrew as a spoken language, which was done by Europeans.