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I'm not disagreeing. He turned hebrew into a pigeon language similar to english. But we DO have many manuscripts in hebrew, and jewish oral tradition itself means that people never officially stopped "speaking" it. It just fell heavily out of favor. Similar to latin today. The latin we speak now sounds very little like how the romans spoke it.

[–] • 1 pt

That is a fair assessment, and my title was a bit click-baity.

But I don't think Latin would be an apt analogy; even though it was mostly dead in the lingual sense after the fall of the Roman Empire, it developed and merged with all of the living Romance languages, and was used as Lingua Franca by the pretentious elite.

I feel like Modern Hebrew is more like if I took Beowulf, the first known epic poem written in English, and tried use that text to invent modern English.

I'd be calling you a 'Þær æt hyðe stod hringedstefna' instead of a faggot

[–] • 2 pts

reminded me of the guy that only spoke klingon to his kid until he was 4 years old

[–] • 1 pt

I have not heard about this guy.

How did the kid turn out?

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The kid refused to adopt it, and at best became bilingual in it. He never spoke it outside the house.

The father ended the experiment a few years in regardless, because the language was too limited in vernacular. Overall, it was a science experiment in being bilingual, but failed to understand that the manufactured languages like Esperanto and Klingon fail because there's no world applications for them, and it's difficult to maintain your fluency in a language if your unable to use it regularly

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What would happen if all the hebrew teachers suddenly ... weren't?

I would imagine that shitty collection of gutteral utterances would disappear.

Makes one think...

[–] • 1 pt

Do you really think jew would just make stuff up?