Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Rasmus Underbjerg Pinnerup <pinnerup AT privat.dk>]

Dear Trevor and list-members

At 03:15 19-01-2004, you wrote:
> You're right, there is. I'm not sure what to do about it. My inclination
> is to mark consonantal lengthening by some means other than writing the
> consonant doubled, but I'm not sure what it would be.

Why not simply mark the mobile shewas with a superscript like the matres, 
giving them the same air of "letters that are written but may not have been 
pronounced"?

> Could you explain this a bit more? As I say, I got ae from
> Saenz-Badillos. The IPA epsilon is another option--my choice of ae was
> mostly for mechanical reasons, since it's an easy symbol to use in
> LaTeX.

The letter "æ" in Danish and Norwegian regularly stands for the open e 
sound of IPA epsilon and therefore is also used in our Hebrew 
translitteration to translitterate the sægol, compared to "e" for tsere. 
Thus "road" is »dærækh« and "book" is »sephær«.

Sincerely,
Rasmus Underbjerg Pinnerup