Biblical Hebrew Forum

["JAMES CHRISTIAN READ" <JCR128 AT student.anglia.ac.uk>]

JCR: Hi,
What do you think about the idea that matres lectiones 
were considered to be consonants? Maybe some people 
genuinely heard a 'Y' at the end of a long 'I' and a 
'W' at the end of long 'U' or 'O'. I know I certainly 
do.

YS: Dear James,

I am still working on a response to your post on the
unpointed vowels discussion.

JCR: No rush.

YS: PS.  Why do you always have a long column
of newlines at the end of each message?


JCR: There's a bug in the uni web mail client which 
makes text annoyingly repeat. The only way I can make 
it clear where the intended end of my text is, is to 
put lots of blank lines at the end of my messages. I 
should be transferring to another institution soon 
enough, so hopefully they won't have the same buggy 
software.

What do you think about the idea that matres lectiones 
were considered to be consonants? Maybe some people 
genuinely heard a 'Y' at the end of a long 'I' and a 
'W' at the end of long 'U' or 'O'. I know I certainly 
do.

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James Christian Read - BSc Computer Science 
http://www.lamie.org/hebrew       -  thesis1: concept driven machine 
translation using the Aleppo codex 
http://www.lamie.org/lad-sim.doc  -  thesis2: language acquisition simulation

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a 'Y' at the end of a long 'I' and a 
'W' at the end of long 'U' or 'O'. I know I certainly 
do.

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James Christian Read - BSc Computer Science 
http://www.lamie.org/hebrew       -  thesis1: concept driven machine 
translation using the Aleppo codex 
http://www.lamie.org/lad-sim.doc  -  thesis2: language acquisition simulation

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