Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Randall Buth <randallbuth AT gmail.com>]

vayyixtov karl
>We don’t know how Biblical Hebrew was pronounced, to me the evidence appears
to favor that it was a consonant-vowel language, where every consonant was
followed by a vowel. As such, ויכתב may have been pronounced as WaYeKaToBa.
Pronouncing it this way gives rhythm to the Psalms that is lacking with the
modern pronunciation.>
>


WaYeKaToBa is Semitic gibberish, as the French say, charabiya.
And it shows exceptionally poor judgement about language development. In
the Qohelet thread we were talking about recognizing patterns.
WaYeKaToBa strikes me as bad beyond words and shows an inability to
recognize pattern.

Please look at your 'evidence' and ask yourself what it is in fact
based on and then
try to explain in a reasonable linguistic fashion how Aramaic, Arabic,
and Hebrew
developped through the ages.

How do you defend yourself from a charge of 'willful ignorance'?
>From my perspective,
anyone who claims that WaYeKaToBa is Hebrew needs to learn
Hebrew.

maybe this can be a shana tova.

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