@mjrtruthteller@HALLWAY66@lebanesepsycho_@BruddaScotch@samah_fadil no in my opinion pointing that out would not be anti-catholic bigotry in itself, unless someone used it to generalize or attack catholics as a group. i didn't think your comment was antisemitic either. i just said that it could come across as antisemitic.
@mjrtruthteller@HALLWAY66@lebanesepsycho_@BruddaScotch@samah_fadil linguistically, the consensus is: it’s a revived and standardized semitic language with heavyy modernization, influenced by historical hebrew and existing dialect traditions. that’s not even controversial in academia. you’re heavily biased because of political reasons.
@mjrtruthteller@HALLWAY66@lebanesepsycho_@BruddaScotch@samah_fadil modern hebrew being a revived spoken language doesn’t mean it was fabricated from scratch, & it also doesn’t require a state to “justify” its linguistic reality. hebrew had continuous written & liturgical use for centuries, which is different from latin today. revival≠invention
@mjrtruthteller@HALLWAY66@lebanesepsycho_@BruddaScotch@samah_fadil modern hebrew is absolutely heavily modernized.. but that’s very different from saying it was fabricated out of nowhere. i get where you’re coming from but still.. we shouldn’t delegitimise a whole ethnicity and their identity.
@mjrtruthteller@HALLWAY66@lebanesepsycho_@BruddaScotch@samah_fadil & no, they didn’t randomly invent how it “sounded.” there were preserved pronunciation traditions from different jewisj communities (sephardi,mizrahi etc.) + massive amounts of written material.
@mjrtruthteller@HALLWAY66@lebanesepsycho_@BruddaScotch@samah_fadil the way you phrase it makes modern hebrew sound like a made-up language, which it isn’t. it’s a revived language based on an ancient one, not something like esperanto. you should be careful with that framing, because it can easily come across as antisemitic.