The Origin of Speeches: Intelligent Design in Language [Paperback]

Isaac E. Mozeson (Author)

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Publication Date: March 30, 2006

The Origin of Speeches begins by recapping the history of our views about the source of language. It then debunks the errors that infuse your dictionary, like those about how words in "unrelated" languages could only have identical sound and sense by "coincidence." It does so with both quality and quantity of data. The next chapters give anyone the skills to sleuth out the Edenic origin of any human word. One learns about letters that shift in sound and location, and letters that drop in and drop out. We discover how Edenics works much like other natural sciences, such as chemistry and physics. Like-sounding opposite words were certainly programmed, not pragmatically evolved.

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A challenge to linguists...calls for a reexamination of our etymologies. -- Dr. Joseph T. Shipley, Author of The Dictionary of Word Origins

There is some scholarly support for...the thesis that all human languages are dervied from a single mother tongue. -- Dr. Alvin Schiff, Hon. President of the Educators Council of America

This is a work of immense scholarship that should be taken seriously. -- Dr. Tzvee Hahavy, Classical and Near Eastern Studies, Univ. of Minnesota

Product Details

• Paperback: 300 pages
• Publisher: Lightcatcher Books (March 30, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0971938881
• ISBN-13: 978-0971938885
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 6.9 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,582,689 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing book, January 4, 2012

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Shalom X (New York) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Origin of Speeches 2nd Edition (Paperback)

The Origin of Speeches title is a play on Darwin. Do you believe that human language develped from monkey grunts or that the Tower of Babel story contains the truth of an original universal human language (Genesis 11:1) being big neurological banged into all the languages of earth (From the Hebrew AReTZ, earth, TERRA reversed). In science this is called Monogenesis of Languqage theory). Did an Almighty Creator custom design language? DO ALL WORDS HAVE ULTIMATE MEANING? This book will explain how proto-Hebrew roots appear in all languages and all words. The research is ongoing. You will be amazed. Go to edenics.net for more information and an interactive dictionary. You will say a loud WOW.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Insightful and Fascinating but poorly written, February 24, 2011

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Jonathan A. Whitmer "NeoScribus" (Grand Rapids, mi) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Origin of Speeches: Intelligent Design in Language (Paperback)

Mozeson's "Edenics" hypothesis is truly intriguing, even if controversial. The idea of a single mother tongue for all of human languages has become a largely standard belief among linguists (see the NOVA video, "In Search of the First Language", for an overview of the issue of language origins) and the theoretical basis of Edenics is, in my opinion, as legitimate of a highly-contested theory of language origins as other controversial theories such as Nostraticism. Such endeavors are inherently hampered by the lack of solid (i.e. "accepted") empirical data and often severely criticized by the academic establishment (note how the linguists in the NOVA video mentioned above get a bit reactionary when giving their view of the Nostratic theory).

However, a significant difference between theories like the Nostratic theory and Mozeson's is that (in keeping with his hypothesis that classical Hebrew is the nearest extant equivalent to "Edenic") Mozeson puts more weight on the recursion of root-word _consonant_ patterns in seemingly unrelated languages, following the analogy of Hebrew, which was originally written only in consonants. This changes how data is looked at, because it minimizes the interpretive "clutter" resulting from the terribly fluid nature of vowel qualities in language change, which allows for more clarity in comparing data from seemingly disparate languages.

Why only three stars? While Mozeson explains in the introduction that he is targeting a popular rather than an academic readership, that is poor justification for the jargon-ridden, propagandist tone of the book. This obsession with punning, jargonism, and expressing his ideas through the lens of an us-vs.-them mindset severely detracts from the appeal and readability of the book. As a college English instructor (with a background in biblical languages and descriptive linguistics), I typically grade down for that kind of language use because it hinders effective and convincing writing. Reworking the material in a more appropriate style (e.g. that of an academic monograph) would really help, as Mozeson presents some rather intriguing data to support his hypothesis.

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5.0 out of 5 stars left me speechless!, October 20, 2009

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Rocky Jackson "restorer of breaches" (New York) - See all my reviews
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When the reality of what Dr mozeson reveals with this life changing truth and as one allows the truth to force out the fog of evolution (evolution as taught in the average church today the 21st century) & frees the soul & spirit of mankind to gain understanding to know the truth to teach the truth of the language of god from this perspective. The perspective of edenics all fresh truth flows from the mountain top, the e-met will set you truly free. Agro,bio,language!

I can hands down say these facts have changed my life forever (for the good) thanks Dr Mozeson , thanks Bradford
My g-d bless you all the days of your lifes!