Monday, June 25, 2007

Etymologically Speaking, That Is

Etymologically speaking, I know what happened to the lost tribes of the Israelites. The lost city of Atlantis? That's not a Hebrew word!

The Mormons are right--the lost tribes migrated to North America and become Native Americans!

How do I know this for such certain, you may wonder. Indeed, you may. But to someone linguistically intuitive, as you know I am, it's encoded in "Yosemite." You see, there are Anti-semites, and there are pro-semites (I count myself in the bunch)--the Native American tribe which gave its name to the tourist spot is obviously pro-semitic, as suggested by "Yo!" (a term of endearment, greeting, down-home camaraderie) attached to "Semite," an ethnic designation. There were the Paiute, the Shawnee, the Reubenites (famous for sandwiches), the Menassahites, the Shoshone, the Luddites, and the descendants of Jacob's lone daughter, Dinah--one branch is the Shorites, the other the Dianetics.

This is the thought for the day. The academic world harbors and nourishes freedom of thought.

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