Biblical Hebrew Forum

[David Kummerow <farmerjoeblo AT hotmail.com>]

Which is an erroneous, and -- as always it seems -- linguistically 
unsubstantiated assumption on your part. Human beings are unable to 
speak such a theoretical construct and has been proven through the 
typological documentation of languages world-wide.

Regards,
David Kummerow.


> David,
>
> You have said
>
> "Actually, I said, and have said, a lot more than that."
>
> I know. I would greatly prefer, though, to stay focused on one thing at 
> a time.
>
> I have said it often and very clearly before, and I will say it again:
>
> Every U and I in a Hebrew word is a universal identity marker [aka 
> personal pronoun], invariably.  
>
> There is no such thing in Hebrew as a "vowel", except for A. The idea of 
> the vowel is an alien carry-over into Hebrew from Indo-European grammar.
>
> Isaac Fried, Boston University
> On Nov 29, 2007, at 12:06 AM, David Kummerow wrote: