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[Uri Hurwitz <uhurwitz AT yahoo.com>]

     Why don't you pick up an elementary Arabic grammer, and
 check if it has a " dagesh XAZAQ ", and whether or not it is 
changes pronounciation of a letter?  
    Hint: it is called 'shaadah', from 'shadid'.
 
   Uri Hurwitz                                         Great Neck, NY
 
 
 
I repeat what I said. The dagesh XAZAQ is irrelevant to the  
pronunciation of the Hebrew word, except for the incidental hardening  
by it of B K P. In particular, the much touted "gemination" is a  
myth. To understand what I mean by the PATAX thing look carefully at  
the prevalence of the dagesh relative to the punctuation.

Isaac Fried, Boston University




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The Arabic Shadda is not the Hebrew dagesh XAZAQ.

Isaac Fried

On Feb 23, 2009, at 11:07 AM, Uri Hurwitz wrote:

>
>
>      Why don't you pick up an elementary Arabic grammer, and
>  check if it has a " dagesh XAZAQ ", and whether or not it is
> changes pronounciation of a letter?
>     Hint: it is called 'shaadah', from 'shadid'.
>
>    Uri Hurwitz                                         Great Neck, NY
>
>
>
> I repeat what I said. The dagesh XAZAQ is irrelevant to the
> pronunciation of the Hebrew word, except for the incidental hardening
> by it of B K P. In particular, the much touted "gemination" is a
> myth. To understand what I mean by the PATAX thing look carefully at
> the prevalence of the dagesh relative to the punctuation.
>
> Isaac Fried, Boston University
>
>
>
>
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