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| Nov 7, 2016 at 19:38 | comment | added | Luís Henrique | ... probably through Castillian cabala. And the original Hebrew word qabbalah meant tradition, received lore, not a collective of anything. So words change their meaning in unpredictable ways, and coincidences between sounds do exist. Only a proper comparative method can elucidate what is coincidence and what is relation. And "Edenics" relies in a completely speculative method - that of cherry-picking similarities between isolated words. But once we attempt to build any system from these coincidences, we fail: coincidences, unlike actual relations, do not happen in a systematic way. | |
| Nov 7, 2016 at 19:31 | comment | added | Luís Henrique | Also note that this cuts both ways. Consider the word "cabal". It means the actions of of a group of persons secretly united in a conspiracy, or the people involved is such actions. In the latter acception, it is a collective: cabal = group of conjurors. And, oh, Latin "caballus" was also a collective - a group of horses. Could that be a coincidence? According to those who don't believe in coincidences, no: it means that "cabal" and "caballus" are related, so "cabal" must be a borrowing from Latin. Unfortunately, we know that "cabal" is a borrowing... from the Mediaeval Hebrew qabbalah... | |
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| Oct 24, 2016 at 15:48 | comment | added | Luís Henrique | Just for context, "direct" (adjective) is shr in Hebrew; "direct" (verb) is lehorot. "Route" is maslul, nativ, afik, tur, orach, and, uff, also derech. So Hebrew bought six ticktets, not one, for this particular lottery - and all the others seem completely unrelated to English, except perhaps "tur"/"tower" (or would that be "tur"/"door"?) At this level of imprecision, practically anything goes. And that is why it isn't considered serious, or even convincing. | |
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| Oct 24, 2016 at 13:39 | history | answered | Luís Henrique | CC BY-SA 3.0 |