Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Did FDR Know Hebrew?


In his first Inaugural Address, Franklin D. Roosevelt said that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Today in my Hebrew class, I learned that stative verbs cannot have a direct object. The verb for "to fear" in Hebrew is one such stative verb. It turns out that the only thing you can fear in Hebrew is.....fear itself!

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