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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">From: </font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span><span name="Edwin Alexander"><span name="Edwin Alexander"><span name="Douglas Hinton"><span name="Mike Morgan"><span class="gD" name="Ed Alexander">Ed Alexander</span> <span class="go"><a href="mailto:edsells@cogeco.ca">edsells@cogeco.ca</a></span></span> </span> <br>

</span></span></span>Subject: LL-L "Language varieties" 2012.11.30 (01) [EN]</font></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></div>

<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">At 04:02 PM 30/11/2012, Mike Morgan wrote:<br></font><blockquote type="cite">
<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Well, Ed, SYNTACTICALLY speaking, there is a school of thought which<br>
holds that MODERN Israeli Hebrew is really relexified Yiddish, and<br> therefore not, strictly speaking a Semitic Languages any more, but<br> rather a (creoloid) cousin to English.</font></blockquote><br><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I wouldn't know about that.  I am a student of Classical Hebrew.</font></span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></div>

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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">From: R. F. Hahn </font><a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">sassisch@yahoo.com</font></a></div>

<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Subject: Language varieties</font></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></div>

<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Mike and Ed, Lowlanders,<br><br>I have a working knowledge of both Hebrew varieties.</font></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt">

<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">It is definitely true that Israeli Hebrew phonology is highly Europeanized (not only Yiddish-influenced, is in fact more Sephardic-influenced), and it is a far cry from the original phonology of about two to three millennia ago. I also agree that Hebrew lexicon has changed quite a lot, and there are some marked morphological and syntactic differences. But I would not go so far as siding with that particular school of thought. Modern Hebrew syntax is still essentially Semitic, a long way from Yiddish syntax, and from German syntax, for that matter. <br>

<br>(German influences on Modern Hebrew tend to be overlooked.)</font></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt">

<font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Also, Modern Hebrew has more than one register. Especially in formal speaking and writing, many Israelis utilize classicizing registers. The differences between ordinarily, casually spoken Israeli Hebrew and classicizing Modern Hebrew is not unlike the differences between (generally spoken) </font><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimotiki"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Dimotiki</font></a><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> (<span dir="auto">Δημοτική</span>) and (classicizing) </font><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharevousa"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Katharevousa</font></a><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> (<span lang="el" lang="el">Καθαρεύουσα) in Modern Greek, though to a lesser extent.</span></font></div>

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Seattle, USA</font></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </font></div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0pt;text-align:center">

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