Irving Finkel
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It says he'll get better.
So you ever met a doctor?
who will say, you do this, you'll get better.
No, they say, all being well, you'll be back on your feet.
Or I've seen this kind of condition many times.
Everything should go fine.
You should get better.
You should be better soon.
But never you will get better because what happens if you die?
Where are you?
Absolutely.
So this means that not expressible in Akkadian grammar are these modal verbs.
could, might, should, ought.
They can't be expressed grammatically, but it is impossible that it was such a magnificent literary language.
where they didn't have the subtleties.
It's utterly impossible.
And if you translate he will in a literary text, he might, then the whole text is different.
Yeah, absolutely.
And they don't, my colleagues translate, it says in the grammar books, like that, automatically.
There's no self-appraisal of the folly of it.