Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>]

Yitzhak,

This business of the lengthening and the doubling is in my opinion  
all science fiction.

Isaac Fried, Boston University


On Feb 27, 2009, at 9:45 AM, Yitzhak Sapir wrote:

> And here is the thing, all the examples you have now accepted
> have two differences in pronunciation!  For example, in the case
> of qinnim/qinim, the words are:
> [qin-'nim] compartments
> [qi:-'nim] lamentations
> In one the i is short and in the other long!  In one the n is doubled
> and in the other it is not!