Sam2 -“Health: I would never Ta’ana that Ben Yehudah making up words makes them Lashon Hakodesh. I don’t even really hold that modern Hebrew is LK, but I think thinking that it does is a valid Shittah with what to rely on.”
I don’t think it’s a valid Shitta, but why do you?
“My point was that if modern Hebrew became LK, it did so because it became common usage among a very large percentage of Jewish people (whether as a first language or a second), not because Ben Yehudah invented the words.”
That’s exactly my point -usage of words can’t possibly enter these words into LK without these words being Okayed by s/o who knows whether they can be admitted to the language or not. I don’t think there is anyone alive nowadays that can do this. I doubt even in the last hundreds of years there were people who could do this. But maybe there were.
Let me explain you what I heard in a Shiur about LK. It isn’t like any other language. For something to exist in this world there has to be a Ruchnius counterpart in Shomayim. Eg. -Take a “table”. For us to have a “table” in this world there has to be a counterpart upstairs. What is this counterpart? The word “Shulchan” is the counterpart. So LK is the Metzious of things the way they really are in Shomayim. So if a table didn’t have the name “Shulchan” then there would be No “table” as we know it on this world. The LK word is the backbone of the object. So you just can’t add words to LK -you have to know what’s going on in Shomayim. People without Ruach Hakodesh can’t do this.
So my point is Ivrit is a made up language, it’s Not Hebrew/LK. Like “Telephone”, what is “telephone” in Ivrit? It’s “telephone” spelled with Hebrew letters. This can’t possibly make it into LK. The real Hebrew word for “telephone” -the only way to know this -is if you know why a telephone can exist in this world. If you know the Ruchnius counterpart to “telephone” then that’s its’ Hebrew word.
Sam -I only posted this to you because you are probably one of the few here that can understand it.