Biblical Hebrew Forum

["Bryan Rocine" <596547 AT ican.net>]

Dear Randall, 

Though "f" for a qamets(et. al.) seems to "fly" in the face of the
intuitively obvious, a number of folks on the list have expressed their
desire to move in the direction of a list standard which uses a
one-for-one, symbol-to-symbol transcription, and they are welcome to do so.
 As you have noted, it is important to give scriptural references where
possible, if for no other reason than to clarify transcription problems. 
We discussed reigning in our transcription methods a couple of moons
ago(available on our archives), with some folks advocating a freewheeling
phonetic transcription and some advocating rigid systems.   but
really...it's pretty hard to enforce one scheme in such a forum as this and
probably not worth it.  Anyhow, we kept gravitating more or less toward the
Michigan scheme.  Personally, I use the Michigan for few items but stay
away from others that I find ugly.  I probably don't transcribe two posts
exactly the same.   

mah la`asot?

uvraxot leka,
Bryan

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From: yochanan bitan <ButhFam AT compuserve.com>
To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Cc: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Subject: readability
Date: Saturday, November 21, 1998 12:51 PM

shalom rav, Haverim
lif`amim ze qashe li liqro ma she-atem kotvim, biyHud ka'asher atem
madbiqim mashehu yeshirot min ha--"eBHS/Michigan".
lemashal:  &:m"xiym  &im:xfh g:dowlfh.

hayiti matsia`  she-tixtevu o tetsayyetu et ha-ivrit be-ofen pashuT
vetosifu mar'e-meqomot latana"x (e.g. 1K1.40).   mi she-yirtse yuxal lifnot
el ha-meqomot ulerafref kirtsono.

braxot
randall

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