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Hebrew Language? Really? Show me.

I had the same question. The very first glimmer I had post-mission that something was scientifically wrong with the BofM was during a class I had at University in cultural linguistics, where we discussed the genetic relations between existing and extinct languages. The teacher was an authority on native American languages. It became obvious that there is no systematic connection whatever between these languages and the semitic languages.

So where on earth someone got the idea that this relation is positively affirmed, when there is no linguist on earth who takes that idea seriously (outside BYU / FARMS communities), is a mystery. I would like to hear more.

It's insufficient to look at two pairs of languages and look for pairs of words that sound roughly similar. This is just another form of cherry picking. Humans are very good at picking out apparent signals in what is actually just noise. If this is the best the Church's best and brightest can come up with, if after looking under all the rocks ordinary folks don't have time to look under that's the best they can do, this is precisely what one would expect given that the whole thing is fictional.

Keewon wrote: ↑Sat Sep 07, 2019 10:18 pm It's insufficient to look at two pairs of languages and look for pairs of words that sound roughly similar. This is just another form of cherry picking. Humans are very good at picking out apparent signals in what is actually just noise. If this is the best the Church's best and brightest can come up with, if after looking under all the rocks ordinary folks don't have time to look under that's the best they can do, this is precisely what one would expect given that the whole thing is fictional.

A similar approach was used by a 19th century author (I forget who) who insisted that the Native Americans are masons. They raise their arm to the square as a greeting, they have ceremonies that can be interpreted as masonic-ish if you look at them through a funhouse mirror. Some words from some native languages kinda sound like some word you hear in masonic temples, etc. By the same method I'm certain I could demonstrate that Native Americans are worshipers of Cthulhu.