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Re: [b-hebrew] shwa

From: "Dr. Joel M. Hoffman" <joel AT exc.com>
To: VadimCherny AT mail.ru
Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] shwa
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 10:47:02 -0500 (EST)

>> But once you come to the realization that a shwa represents the lack
>> of a vowel --- no more, no less --- everything because eaiser and more
>> sensible.
>
>What vowel is lacked in nizcar? Interconsonantal schwa represents not a

What do you mean, "what vowel is lack[ing]"? There is no vowel.
That's what lacking means. (It's like the absurd question in _Catch
22_ about someone who never did something. He is asked WHEN he didn't
do it. He is forced to answer that he always didn't do it....)

-Joel

Joel M. Hoffman
http://www.exc.com/JoelHoffman

Re: [b-hebrew] shwa, Dr. Joel M. Hoffman, 03/13/2006
- Re: [b-hebrew] shwa, Vadim Cherny, 03/13/2006
  - Re: [b-hebrew] shwa, Herman Meester, 03/13/2006
    - Re: [b-hebrew] shwa, Vadim Cherny, 03/15/2006
  - Re: [b-hebrew] shwa, Dr. Joel M. Hoffman, 03/14/2006
    - Re: [b-hebrew] shwa, Stoney Breyer, 03/14/2006
    - Re: [b-hebrew] shwa, Vadim Cherny, 03/14/2006
      - Re: [b-hebrew] shwa, Dr. Joel M. Hoffman, 03/15/2006
        
        Re: [b-hebrew] shwa, Peter Kirk, 03/15/2006
- Re: [b-hebrew] shwa, Yitzhak Sapir, 03/14/2006
  - Re: [b-hebrew] shwa, Rolf Furuli, 03/14/2006
    - Re: [b-hebrew] shwa, Yitzhak Sapir, 03/14/2006
      - Re: [b-hebrew] shwa, Herman Meester, 03/14/2006
        
        Re: [b-hebrew] shwa, Rolf Furuli, 03/15/2006
        
        Re: [b-hebrew] shwa, Peter Kirk, 03/15/2006