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Word play in aramaic and syriac
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Akhi Steve,

You state in one breathe that saying "potential/hypothetical pun" ( for the sake of accuracy) would be an over bearing over-qualification, yet in the rest of your post you insist on being extra detailed in minutia such as differentiating between the mlhaso and malula dialects. You can't have it both ways. Either be specific in both cases, or vague in both.

You can be convinced in your alleged wordplay without being dogmatic in positively stating that it is a missed pun. Someone reading your post, who doesn't know any better, might assume that it must be true. Or that there must be something other than pure conjecture behind the statement.

The fact remains that even the small amount of Aramaic preserved in the GNT is identical to what you call "Classical Syriac." Even in cases where glosses occur, it is for clarification of an A/B scenario.

For your information, yes in addition to my own Tkhuma dialect I also have family (uncles, aunts, brother-in laws, etc) and close personal friends with whom I regularly and easily converse in Jilu, Tyari, Urmi, Baz, Elkosh and even Turoyo. I won't lie and claim I've ever met anyone who speaks mlahaso (it's nearly dead, if not already dead) nor anyone from Malula (which is more influenced by Arabic than Aramaic.)

The fact is Aramaic has always been fragmented, today and even more so in Christ's time. But what you call "mutual intelligibility" is simply a matter of exposure and practice. People in our community are more comfortable in switching dialects than you think. And people were back then as well, as evidenced by the different people with whom Christ conversed). The evidence is in the scripture and in the evangelizing of multiple areas of Aramaic speaking peoples.

+Shamasha
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Word play in aramaic and syriac - by memradya - 02-27-2013, 08:26 PM
RE: Word play in aramaic and syriac - by Thomas - 05-27-2020, 04:56 AM
Re: Word play in aramaic and syriac - by distazo - 02-28-2013, 04:10 AM
Re: Word play in aramaic and syriac - by Thirdwoe - 02-28-2013, 04:27 AM
Re: Word play in aramaic and syriac - by memradya - 02-28-2013, 05:06 PM
Re: Word play in aramaic and syriac - by distazo - 03-01-2013, 06:59 AM
Re: Word play in aramaic and syriac - by Thirdwoe - 03-01-2013, 07:45 PM
Re: Word play in aramaic and syriac - by memradya - 03-01-2013, 08:25 PM
Re: Word play in aramaic and syriac - by distazo - 03-01-2013, 08:40 PM
Re: Word play in aramaic and syriac - by Thirdwoe - 03-02-2013, 01:07 AM
Re: Word play in aramaic and syriac - by Thirdwoe - 03-03-2013, 07:29 PM
Re: Word play in aramaic and syriac - by Paul Younan - 03-04-2013, 12:30 AM
Re: Word play in aramaic and syriac - by memradya - 03-04-2013, 12:58 PM
Re: Word play in aramaic and syriac - by memradya - 03-04-2013, 08:47 PM
Re: Word play in aramaic and syriac - by distazo - 03-04-2013, 08:53 PM
Re: Word play in aramaic and syriac - by memradya - 03-05-2013, 04:37 PM
Re: Word play in aramaic and syriac - by distazo - 03-06-2013, 07:18 AM
Re: Word play in aramaic and syriac - by Thirdwoe - 03-06-2013, 07:48 AM
Re: Word play in aramaic and syriac - by Thirdwoe - 03-07-2013, 05:23 AM
Re: Word play in aramaic and syriac - by Thirdwoe - 03-07-2013, 06:23 AM
Re: Word play in aramaic and syriac - by distazo - 03-07-2013, 10:49 AM
Re: Word play in aramaic and syriac - by memradya - 03-07-2013, 05:16 PM
Re: Word play in aramaic and syriac - by Thirdwoe - 03-08-2013, 01:23 AM
Re: Word play in aramaic and syriac - by Thirdwoe - 03-08-2013, 04:11 AM
Re: Word play in aramaic and syriac - by Thirdwoe - 03-08-2013, 04:47 AM
Re: Word play in aramaic and syriac - by memradya - 03-08-2013, 01:25 PM
Re: Word play in aramaic and syriac - by memradya - 03-09-2013, 08:19 PM
Re: Word play in aramaic and syriac - by Thirdwoe - 06-25-2014, 02:46 AM
Re: Word play in aramaic and syriac - by Thirdwoe - 06-28-2014, 09:12 PM

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