[lojban-beginners] Re: usefulness

["Yoav Nir" <yoav.nir@gmail.com>]

Something like that, although I think the bible is more similar to modern Hebrew than Shakespere is to modern English. This is somewhat intentionally so. Ben Yehuda and his followers began from the biblican language and rejected much of the early-CE development of the language that was heavily influenced by Aramaic and Greek.

In fact, the 2500-year old bible looks much more familiar than the merely 1600-year-old talmud.

It's definitely more familiar than anything written in the British isles 1600 or 2500 years ago.

On 10/24/07, Jared Angell <angell.jared@gmail.com> wrote:

My understanding was that my friends did have a hard time reading
ancient Hebrew as much of the grammar is dissimilair.  That is just
what I heard from at least half a dozen people, perhaps it is not much
different than modern American English and Elizabethan English???