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  • From: "Isaac Fried" <if AT math.bu.edu>
  • To: <joel AT exc.com>, <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] About Dagesh's
  • Date: Mon, 26 May 2008 02:35:51 +0200

It is worth noticing that by edict of the Hebrew Academy in Jerusalem, bending its will to popular usage, every initial B, K, P is now hard, independently of the ending of the preceding word.

It appears that there is tacit agreement here that the dagesh is a redundant marking. It is pity that the same HA does not find the guts to abolish this controversial eye sore from actual Hebrew orthography altogether, except in B, K, P and the qubuc.



Isaac Fried, Boston University





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