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Pastimes : SI Grammar and Spelling Lab -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Zeev Hed who wrote (289)	1/3/1998 6:19:00 AM
From: Jack Clarke	Respond to of 4711

Zeev: As usual, your ideas are fine. But remember, trying to make language logical was what got us into trouble with those classicists who made all those arbitrary rules we are still arguing about now. The construction of modern Hebrew, as I understand it, was indeed a marvelous accomplishment, which I would not have thought possible. The Roman church (which title we Anglicans, who think of ourselves as "catholic" as well, tend to use) has apparently kept up its Latin vocabulary by constantly infusing neologisms (tunica minimalis = miniskirt), and I imagine the Israeli scholars had to do the same with the ancient Hebrew tongue. Esperanto certainly never went anywhere, although I see summario in Interlingua occasionally after a medical paper in an international journal. No, I don't think we'll see any linguistic changes wrought(!) by fiat. Let's just sit back and watch it happen, fighting about it all the way. Best... Jack