The more you study Hebrew the more it becomes like... um... like your appendix. It just becomes part of you, that you don't even know is there.Muttered under the breath of the student next to me;
What? A useless part.Also if I could extend the imagery, Hebrew becomes a part of you that occasionally causes you intense pain.
I'm still not convinced that it's a real language.
ReplyDeleteI repeat my question which has been running around my head since I started... Why couldn't they just speak English?
ReplyDeleteOur main lecturer has this refrain he keeps repeating when discussing aspects of the language which they can't invent a rule to cover (that is, for the millions of exceptions). If it involves any sort of unexpected dot, "Perhaps a mosquito was squashed onto the parchment at some stage".
Per your earlier comments about Greek over Hebrew; I've heard that humanities wired people find greek preferable, while math/science people prefer hebrew because they read the patterns.
ReplyDeleteHi Gary,
ReplyDeleteI have heard similar sentiments before I started at College, when someone told me a mixture of musical, mathematical, and scientific thinking helps all language learning. For me its just a matter of a lot of hard work.
So, for the record my Hebrew vs Greek post was the night before my Hebrew exam and in reality I don't yet know enough to have a preference. The benefit of the Greek though is in the similarities to English. It's hard just getting used to reading Hebrew right to left.