[arachne] Re: The Bible says ...

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On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 17:41:17 -0400, L.D. Best wrote:

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> "Reading" ancient Hebrew isn't really "reading."

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> Ancient Hebrew totally lacks any verbs in the written form.

Oh? I thought it was just the infinitives that were lacking (apart from
one infinitive absolute), with the vowels being what were missing when
written.

  Many words
> are 'clued' exactly the same in written form, while being totally
> different in actuality.  Think of trying to figure out if "ft" means
> fat, fit, fight, foot, etc. simply by seeing the two consonants ...
> pretty tough.

That also enabled deliberate "puns" which could convey several meanings.

Anyway, that is precisely what "read" means - to puzzle out. It is
related to "riddle", and you may once or twice have come across an
English phrase which went something like "read me this riddle". It's
just that English and its writing system have a lot of evolution behind
them to make it easier - but it's still hard on new learners from words
and spellings that no longer match up, or from homonyms and whatever.
PML.
GST+NPT=JOBS

I.e., a Goods and Services Tax (or almost any other broad based production 
tax), with a Negative Payroll Tax, promotes employme
t. 

See http://member.netlink.com.au/~peterl/publicns.html#AFRLET2 and the other 
items on that page for some reasons why. 

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