Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Peter Kirk <peter AT qaya.org>]

On 04/02/2006 20:20, Yitzhak Sapir wrote:

> ... It would be like me saying "heard" and "erred" the
> same and you understanding me due to context and accent.
> It doesn't meant that "h" falls off the beginning of "heard."  A
> "similar but not the same" pronounciation of Modern Hebrew
> is simply a wrong pronounciation. ...

This is a bad analogy, because in many dialects of English "heard" and 
"erred" are pronounced essentially the same because word initial "h" is 
dropped, whereas (if I understand you correctly) there are no dialects 
of modern Hebrew in which word final het is silent.

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