[b-hebrew] shwa

Dr. Joel M. Hoffman joel at exc.com
Tue Mar 14 10:47:02 EST 2006


>> But once you come to the realization that a shwa represents the lack
>> of a vowel --- no more, no less --- everything because eaiser and more
>> sensible.
>
>What vowel is lacked in nizcar? Interconsonantal schwa represents not a

What do you mean, "what vowel is lack[ing]"?  There is no vowel.
That's what lacking means.  (It's like the absurd question in _Catch
22_ about someone who never did something.  He is asked WHEN he didn't
do it.  He is forced to answer that he always didn't do it....)

-Joel

Joel M. Hoffman
http://www.exc.com/JoelHoffman



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