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Bad Arabic and Hebrew Takes
@arabic_bad
Exasperated linguist perversely collecting silly statements about Arabic, Hebrew & other Semitic langs. Submit via tag. I've no religion. Crotchety & sardonic.
Apr 18 • 25 tweets • 4 min read
I can't get bored with the "Palestinians R Fake Because Arabic No P" thing is that these κοπρηγκεφαλοπαθές keep finding new ways to make it funny again. Bro is so hilariously close & yet so far

Oh screw it. Here's a thread about the Arabic name of Palestine... Image The Arabic name of Palestine is Filisṭīn. Two things here are important for understanding when and how this word may have entered Arabic. The first is that it has /f/.
Mar 31 • 26 tweets • 4 min read
I still am not quite sure how this stupid thought-meme originated, but it couldn't be farther from the truth of the actual story of Arabic words in Hebrew. Thread.... Image There *were* people during the Hebrew revival (incl. Ben Yehuda himself) who strongly advocated for incorporation of Arabic loans & neologisms derived from Arabic roots, but the actual impact of those efforts amounts to little in Hebrew as it actually exists and is used today.
Jun 29, 2024 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
This notion seems like it might have snowballed around an interesting but unsurprising kernel of truth: the Hebrew grammarian tradition — including things like the formal analysis of roots as triliteral — developed out of the Arab tradition. Image Deliberate grammatical thinking about Hebrew in the Middle Ages was profoundly influenced by the Arab tradition, so much so that it wouldn't be too much of a stretch to say early Hebrew grammarians were basically continuing the Arab grammarian tradition with a different language
Jun 22, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
No. You don't get to take one of the many proposed etymologies for Retjenu and put it forth in such a way as to imply that there's something like a scholarly consensus around it. There's like one guy made this argument in the 80s and it didn't really catch on. Your fucking JSTOR-jaunts aren't a substitute for actual familiarity with scholarly literature.
Jun 22, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
This account is from kookville.

Look, it's one thing to argue that the Philistines may have arrived from the Aegean and been Indo-European speakers. Lots of people have argued that. But... First, there's every indication that the Philistines, whatever their origin, adopted local Canaanite ways of being very quickly.