Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Uri Hurwitz <uhurwitz AT yahoo.com>]

Yitzhak Sapir  wrote, inter alia:     
    ..." In any case, Modern Hebrew has no
genetic relation to any earlier form of Hebrew but is a
resurrected language."
            I repeat your words: NO genetic relation to any earlier form of 
Hebtrew ??!!
            come on!             UH
   
   
            He also mentioned that Rochelle Altman said that "the Masoretes 
had tin ears"..
             I too noticed this statement in an earlier post of hers. Now, it 
is a fact that
  that they introduced marks for half vowels into their vowelling system -- 
the "chatafim" --   for the guttorals. Without discussing this innovation in 
details, let me say this  indicates the opposite of "tin ears",  rather a 
sharp auditory perception.
   
     In Arabic vowelling the 'skun',  or quiescent Shewa, serves also 
guttorals.
   
     Uri
   
         
  
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Yitzhak asked:-

>What are tin ears

I case no one else has answered. Its a slang term for someone who cannot
distinguish some sounds. For example, Americans often cannot distinquish
between the New Zealand pronunciation of ``pin'' or ``pen''. Other have
trouble distinguishing between ``race'' and ``rice''. One could say such a
person, or people, had a tin ear. The statement about the Masoretes having
tin ears is the same. The claim is that they could not distinquish various
vowel sounds when they added the pointing to the consonantal text.

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