[Debating about which was the "one" language before the Tower of Babel "fiasco"...]
I also believe Hebrew was the original language. No other language can express what that language can. It must be God breathed.
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I really want to decry him as a retard on his board, with something even more retarded...
I'd bet dollars to wet crackers that warbar can't speak, write or read any Hebrew.
I believe that if the 'Tower of Babel' story happened, it went like this;
Julian: That'sa German word, haven't you even got an English term for it? "cause this way it makes a horrible example.
NotMe.Schaudenfruede is an emotion. "Taking quiet joy in the incidental suffering of others." It does not translate more concisely than that into English.
I wonder if this dickhead knows the English language (Complete Oxford Dictionary) passed 1,000,000 words a few years ago. I wonder how many thousand Hebrew has.
Once again, why isn't there a word for Kangaroo and Koala in Hebrew? They were on the Ark after all if there was a global flood.
Since the "Tower of Babel fiasco" is a myth, the whole debate on this issue, not surprisingly, is pointless.
Debating whether Hebrew was the original human language on the basis of the biblical story of Babel is at least as stupid as debating what bovine species was crossed with humanity to get the Minotaur, or how fairies fit into the branching pathways of primate evolution. It's a freaking MYTH
*breaks in*
@Julian
What's the Hebrew word for Schaudenfruede then smarty pants? has one , believe it or not.
AFAIK, Hebrew wasn't a more modern version of Aramaic, but the other way around. Modern Hebrew was pretty much a resurrected dead sacral language to be used in Israel (pretty much like if all Catholics had a state of their own and started speaking Latin there.)
Language necrophilia if you want. Along with thread necrophilia, seeing this is from 2006.
The oldest known written accounts are in Sumerian cuneiform (2900 BC). A little bit later Egyptian hieroglyphs (2700 BC). After that: Akkadian, Eblaite, Elamite, Hurrian, Luwite, Minoan, Hittite, Canaanite, Greek, Hattic, Ugaritic, Chinese, Phoenician, Aramaic.
And not till then Hebrew. The first known written account in Hebrew is the "Gezer calendar", created around 950 BC.
Mesopotamia? Sumeria? Ring any bells, nutbar? Oh, and riddle me this:
If, prior to the so-called 'Tower of Babel', humanity only spoke one language, and after it's 'fall', your so-called 'God' created 'confusion' in humanity, in making them speak many various languages - thus the implication that humans have no possible neuropsychological facility for coming up with their own languages...:
How do you account for the likes of Esperanto in 1870-80 BCE , and Klingon in 1984 BCE ? Both of which didn't exist before. According to your logic nutbar, there's no possible way for Dr. Ludovic Lazarus Zamenhof and Marc Okrand respectively, to have invented these purely 'artificial' languages, amirite?
PROTIP: The KJV has been translated into Klingon (The 'King J'Hames Version'). So start learning it, nutbar. It must be God breathed, amirite?
Qapla'.
“ No other language can express what that language can.”
Also, that chapter includes a description of how God will roll the evil into a ball and drop kick them over the horizon.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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