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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As an oncologist, I can tell you that your arguments about the importance of Greek and Latin on modern medical practice is laughable. Moreover, as a PK, I can tell you first-hand of the contribution of ancient Hebrew to Western Civilization - for example the very concept of law derives from Hebrew. Hebrew, of course, has many more cognates that Yiddish, sounds like you need to brush up on your alphabet (a Hebrew cognate). In any case, I echo the concern for this strange preoccupation with picking on Sela. I am not pulling my daughter from Yu Ying for Sela, but I hope Sela goes forth and prospers. YY parents are familiar with such negative fixations by DCUM, but you all seem to have fallen of the mental cliff of late![/quote]

As an oncologist, can you tell me how many Hebrew words you come across in medicine, as opposed to how many Greek and Latin words?  Hardly any Hebrew, but MOST medical terminology has Latin and Greek terminology.  As for law, our system of law comes from British Common Law, which in turn goes back to Roman law.  In the English courts, the language bases that were used were English (from the Saxons, which is Germanic) and the other French (from the Normans. and which is a Latin-based Romance language).  Meanwhile, the most ancient documented origin of the concept of law itself goes back to the Babylonian Code of Hammurabi, which predates the Torah and Judaic laws by 500 years.  FWIW, I'm not "picking on" Sela, I am a strong proponent of immersion and charters, and in fact I wish Sela success - I'm just questioning the pragmatics and relevance of Hebrew as opposed to other languages.[/quote]

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