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  • From: "kenneth greifer" <greifer AT hotmail.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [b-hebrew] Using an unpointed text
  • Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 18:16:58 +0000

This idea might sound silly, but a person could learn to read Biblical Hebrew without the vowels like a deaf person learns to read and understand a language without imagining any sounds connected to the words.

You can just see the letters as words, and recognize what the words mean without any sound connected to the letters. If a person wants to read Biblical Hebrew, and has no plans to speak the language, then he or she can look at the letters without the words representing sounds. The meanings of the words could be understand by each person in his or her own language. If deaf people can do it, then a hearing person could do it, but it would feel strange.

Do you have to speak or even hear a language to know how to read a language?

Sincerely,

Kenneth Greifer

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