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Thanks for this - very interesting!

• heretohelp 15y ago
  If you think that's cool, imagine how easy vocabulary is in Hebrew or Arabic once you know the patterns. The verb/noun/adverb patterns tend to be pretty consistent, so if you know the noun for "book", you can just apply the verb pattern to get "read". This can be carried over to most such concept-families that follow this pattern. Note: not as applicable to newer words or words taken from the West. Hebrew has a lot of obvious English ports. I find middle-eastern languages pretty fascinating in general. It's my dream to spend time with ancient Levantine-Arabic speaking tribes and learn the tongue from them. The idioms in traditionally Arabic-speaking cultures are fascinating. There's a reason the intellectuals of yore, such as Thomas Jefferson, considered Arabic to be one the most artful and elegant languages in terms of expression and structure. A lot of people like to talk about musical talent ports over very well for programming ability. I'd like to think my obsession with languages has done similar things for my coding.