Showing posts with label Language. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Language. Show all posts
Wednesday, December 27, 2023

Miscellaneous language tidbits

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From the forthcoming The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha: More Noncanonical Scriptures 2: Parthian had been the official language under the...
Wednesday, January 13, 2021

Oh no! It's a new kind of dinosaur!

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Via Ryan, our son.
Tuesday, June 30, 2020

The problem of metaphors

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That is not, however, the end of the matter, because the notion that the God of the Bible is masculine rather than feminine is false. Despit...
Monday, September 16, 2019

You will make a fool of yourself

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The study of any language—Greek, Latin, Hebrew, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Taino—opens the mind, gives you a window ont...
Thursday, May 16, 2019

Tread carefully!

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Any poetic, philosophic, rhetorical pronouncement worth taking seriously will compact its executive means and meanings. It will resist, it w...
Tuesday, May 14, 2019

A matter of perspective

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The extinction of a language however remote, however immune to historical-material success or diffusion, is the death of a unique world—view...
Friday, May 11, 2018

A Study in Translations

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I was reading in Matthew 8 this morning in my currently favored translation, the Common English Bible , when I noticed that all the referenc...
Thursday, April 12, 2018

Learning styles?

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I've been hearing about learning styles for what seems like forever—especially related to language acquisition. It sounds good in theory...
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Sunday, December 17, 2017

Aramaic irony

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The Edict of Darius declares concerning any who may hinder the reconstruction: “that a beam (ʾāʿ) will be ripped out of his house and, once ...
Monday, September 18, 2017

Figurative language? Or literal? Is there a difference?

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The traditional position, both in philosophy and in linguistics – and indeed the everyday view – is that (1) there is a stable and unambiguo...
Wednesday, June 14, 2017

Smyth strikes again

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Interesting tidbit I picked up today from Smyth: 966. The verb may agree with the nearest or most important of two or more subjects. The ve...
Tuesday, April 26, 2016

Kiss it good-bye

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The relative decrease in the number of present imperatives in the Koine in comparison with Ancient Greek may be explained by two factors. In...
Thursday, September 26, 2013

Good stuff

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I've been woefully behind in mentioning a few books that I've received recently. I won't have time to read them for at least ano...
Friday, December 14, 2012

How knowing Hebrew can be a help...

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In 2 Kgs 6:11, ֶשׁ is placed in the mouth of an Aramean king, even though ֶשׁ is not used in Aramaic. In Jonah, ֶשׁ is placed once in the mouth...
Thursday, December 13, 2012

Language learning

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..learning a language is seen as language development [in complex systems theory] rather than as acquisition. In other words, language is a ...
Friday, November 11, 2011

Wow, what a hornet's nest

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I certainly didn't expect to stir up a hornet's nest with my post on Wednesday , but I certainly seem to have. Peter Kirk posted ...
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Tuesday, July 05, 2011

Basics of Biblical Aramaic

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I recently received a copy of Basics of Biblical Aramaic by Miles van Pelt (thanks Jesse!). It is the most recent contribution to Zonderva...
Monday, April 11, 2011

Thought for the day

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“Rule for writers: use the standard lexicons and if you differ from them you better have good evidence because you are disagreeing with some...
Thursday, August 20, 2009

Coptic, anyone?

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I collect grammars. I have mentioned that before . One of the many languages I have a grammar for is Coptic . I have looked at it many tim...
Monday, January 19, 2009

Thought for the day

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“Too often commentators resort to the “emphasis” explanation when confronted with atypical or strange structures or forms in passages of the...