re: #246 John Neverbend

Of course it’s made up. I can’t speak for Arabic, but Hebrew and Aramaic (to the best of my knowledge) do not have noun cases as in Latin or Greek. The verb is fairly complex, but nouns are just singular, plural or dual whether they’re subject, object or whatever.

Thank you.

Yeah, Arabic has (three) noun cases, which correspond to nominative (-u), accusative (-a), and a subordinate case (-i) which mostly handles genitive. In any case, we’ve since seen the full quote - with an “impersonal” (read: passive) verb - which makes clear that “goyim” was the subject (read: nominative) anyway.

The full quote - we’ve just been told - is “the best of the goyim”, and that (again, in Arabic) should be an iDafa construction - it would look something like ahsanu al-kuffaru. Shouldn’t Hebrew also have something like “tob ha-goyim”? And what’s with the “shebbe” in there?