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How the article made it onto CNN, I have no idea. But they shared some silliness as though it were serious, mentioning a group that claims that each Hebrew letter is not really a letter but a word. That would mean, as one commenter pointed out, that Hebrew has a grand total of 22 words. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":23424,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[1456,1977,4485,8200,9719],"class_list":["post-23397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hebrew-languages","tag-bunk","tag-cnn","tag-hebrew-languages","tag-nonsense","tag-pseudoscholarship"],"yoast_head":"\n
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