Re: Be and Have in Hebrew, and ACC case

Peter T. Daniels:

>> In 2000 in sci.anthropology, you wrote: "et" isn't an article, it's the
>> accusative marker, used with definite nouns 38DF4DD5.7005@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> I have never posted to sci.anthropology.

By the message ID given, you can easily check that this article, written
on 2000-03-27, was crossposted to various groups, among them sci.lang and
sci.anthropology. At first glance, it does not look like a forged message.

And the statement

"et" isn't an article, it's the accusative marker

is not *that* wrong, irrespective of whether you actually did write it or
not. Whoever wrote it would be in good company with Gesenius who used the
term "nota accusativi". Only when used by snippy little bitches, the term
becomes plain wrong; who has a name as a linguist and a true gentleman can
use it and will be understood.

Anyhow, you have entirely missed what Rachel was writing, to wit that it
is astonishing that in a sentence as "yesh li et hassefer" the word sefer
takes an object marker although it would be expected to be the subject of
the sentence. You entirely concentrated on finding some minor fault in
order to insult her that the whole gist of her message escaped you.

It is really embarrassing for me to see how a person I did hold in very
high esteem is disgracing himself by sleazy language and bad
manners. Among civilised persons, that's just not done.

Helmut Richter
.

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