use of OS by ancient Aramaic-speaking Christians

[Paul Younan]

What does he think? I think it's pretty clear what he thinks, he thinks what he wants/needs to think based on his faith in "scholarly consensus."

Why else would he not have answered this post?

http://www.peshitta.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=228

Or this one?

http://www.peshitta.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=273

How about this little cutie?

http://www.peshitta.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=400

Or this mother of all examples?

http://www.peshitta.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=231

Or this father of all examples?

http://www.peshitta.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=224

And plenty of others on the Aramaic Primacy 101 forum!

I'll tell you why he hasn't answered any of those challenges. It's because Yuri is REAL good at going on forums and pretending to be an expert at a topic which he really knows very little about. I'm not even talking about speaking, or even being able to READ, the Aramaic. No. He's already admitted that he can't even read it when I openly challenged him to.

I'm talking about Yuri going around and collecting quotes from people on the internet and, his favourite technique, quoting Greek Primacist scholars (mind you, none of them actually speak or read the language) as authoratative on the issue.

This, he calls "science." What I do, of course, is "faith" and "tradition." Heheh.

Then he comes on and diminishes Peshitta.org, and says we should not settle for such little ambitions....a tiny little forum that the "scholarly world" ignores. No. We should have higher ambitions.....we should accept his quotes from western "scholars" who supposedly know what they are talking about.

It's that simple to Yuri, and other like him (Trimm, Ring, etc.) We need them. Isn't it obvious?

How much simpler their life will be for them when all of Aramaic dies out with the last native speaker. Then the likes of them, who sound authoritative and convincing enough to people even less knowledgeable than they, will rule the internet message boards without any challenge.