Re: Tactics to bringing a language to life

In article <4446cf27$0$24652$a729d347@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ant=F3nio_Marques?= <m.ap@xxxxxxx> wrote:
zev wrote:

Ben Yehuda created new words using
Hebrew roots whenever he could.
Not all of his new words stuck,
in some cases people preferred European.
Today spoken Hebrew is full of foreign words
mainly from local Arabic and English.

I know of Greek words in Biblical Hebrew.
There are words of suspected Egyptian origin,
and words which appear unrelated to anything
in any Semitic language.

Despite many efforts to the contrary, most
languages use some version of the word
"telephone" rather than a direct translation
into their language, such as "fernsprecher".

I don't think many speakers of Hebrew
and some European language would agree
about your "inner workings" contention.
I certainly don't.

It may help to remember that Modern Hebrew
is based more on Mishnaic (Talmudic) Hebrew
than on Biblical Hebrew.

Is this a poem?
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