Wednesday, January 31, 2024

You still need to define it!

Now there is a tendency among American historical linguists, one to which Semitists are by no means immune, to assume that ordinary German words acquire, by virtue of their importation into English, technical rigor, and that they imbue scholarly discourse into which they are embedded with a corresponding degree of rigor.—Alice Faber in Linguistics and Biblical Hebrew, 191

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