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  • From: "Dave Washburn" <dwashbur AT nyx.net>
  • To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: HF$IBBO:LIYM (?) -- (Parenthesis)
  • Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 17:37:01 -0700


Ian wrote:
> >> There is no difference in pronunciation; how can you differentiate
> >> in speech between "Sh" and "ShSh"?
> >
> >There certainly are langages that have a doubled "sh" shound in
> >speech; Arabic and Japanese spring to mind...
>
> And in connected speech in English (ie spoken normally):
>
> Bush showed a lot.
>
> There is a double $ going from Bush to showed. Try and say it with only one
> and you end up with
>
> Bush owed a lot.
>
> So, is there really no difference in pronunciation?

Excellent point. It's easy to forget that we're looking at a written
text that is designed to represent the verbal sounds, and such
written systems are by their very nature less than perfect. Thanks
for the reminder.


Dave Washburn
http://www.nyx.net/~dwashbur
"No study of probabilities inside a given frame can ever
tell us how probable it is that the frame itself can be
violated." C. S. Lewis




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