B"H
I am most gratified to lend support to the pioneering
school of linguistics known as "Edenics" as described on the
following web site:
http://www.homestead.com/edenics/.
Having been in correspondence with Isaac
Elchanan Mozeson and having read a number of samples of his work, I am
convinced that Edenics is a great contribution to linguistics in our times.
Edenics will, when fully developed, serve as the basis of a far more profound
understanding of human cognition, language and cultural development. Having
previewed excerpts from the soon-to-be-published book ORIGIN OF SPEECHES,
I would heartily recommend it.
The revision of etymology is a monumental
task and requires the efforts of many experts in related fields to join hands
with those who are presently contributing to the study of Edenics in refining
and elucidating the thesis. I put out a clarion call to all Hebrew linguists,
particularly those working in computational linguistics; those analyzing the
mathematics of the alphanumerical Hebrew language and those working in other
related fields to consider every and any way their work might complement,
supplement and augment that of Mr. Mozeson.
It is my considered opinion that
collaboration between those working in Hebrew linguistics and those working in
bioinformatics is essential. The Hebrew language appears to function as an
organism in a number of ways. The radicals in the Hebrew language can be
likened to genetic sequences. The rearrangement of the order of the letters in
the radicals is reminiscent of isomers. The metatheses of letters into other
letters are mutation-like.
In order to prove that Hebrew is the
progenitor of its progeny, and, perhaps, anticipate the development of
languages, we will have to know the linguistic/genetic formulae that translate
Hebrew into its daughter languages and keep careful records of them. This work
is very similar to the work now being carried on by bioinformaticians and will aid
the work of those involved in computational linguistics.