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. 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.
