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  • From: kwrandolph <kwrandolph AT email.com>
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  • Subject: [b-hebrew] Hidden Grammatical Agendas?
  • Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 14:40:21 -0700

Chris:

I think it is a bunch of malarkey.

Seriously, though, when there are no set spelling rules, then spelling variations are just that, variations, neither right nor wrong. As a result, I don't put much thought into the variations that I see while reading. So far I have noticed no rhyme nor reason to those variations (but I didn't expect to find any) and think they are no different than when a report from the Lewis and Clark expedition spelled "bear" (the big, growly and furry critter) three different ways in one sentence. As such, spelling variations are not "deficient spelling".

On the question of grammar, yes previous researchers did work out grammatical rules. For example, the belief that all Hebrew words had triliteral roots goes way back, if I'm not mistaken. I disagree with it, but that's gist for a different message. That such grammatical rules may appear to be 'unorthodox' by today's standards is an understatement, but the ancients did understand the concept.

Karl W. Randolph.

----- Original Message -----
From: wattswestmaas <wattswestmaas AT eircom.net>

I am interested to hear your comments please........

I ... did come accross a very 'small'
paragraph in a letter in response to somebody else...they were
talking about 'Deficient spelling' and I
gathered from the gist of what must have been talked about that they were
conferring about the fact that assigning grammatical rules are not the sole
priviledge of 20th century advances in the understanding of language and
linguistics. I gathered too from the reply that someone must have said that
the 'Biblical hebrew' of the hebrews had its grammatical rules which may
well have appeared 'unorthodox' to todays scholars. But the climax came
when the rabbi said that deficient spelling was a grammatical rule! also
indicating (surprise surprise) a deficiency in the noun or concept that lay
in the sentence.

What are your thoughts please?




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