[I’m being a bit antagonistic on purpose with that title to get some reactions, but only a bit!]
Tonya & Daniel (bloggers at ) asked me a question about communicative methodology in learning Hebrew when they . After that, wrote a four-piece essay (, , , and ) on “Conversational” “Dead” languages which generated some and led me to Daniel Streett’s work. Rather than bog down Seumas’ blog with a lengthy response, I’ve decided to bring my further comments here to my own blog. also has a lot to say ( and ) in response to Daniel & Tonya’s own posts on their blog ( and ) in response to Seumas. I know I’m missing some other contributors to this current discussion (but I’m not leaving them out intentionally)! I think we need a flow-chart to follow the conversations.