Biblical Hebrew Forum

[James Christian <jc.bhebrew AT googlemail.com>]

You still haven't understood anything I've written have you?

I have made no claims that the inventors of the alphabet didn't
differentiate between vowels. Of course they perceived the difference (at
some level of perception). Just as they also perceived the minute
differences of sounds between consonants and vowels (at some other level of
perception). As some people seem to be still confused with this I'm starting
a new thread about phonemes and minimal pairs. I'll see you there.

James Christian

2010/1/24 Yitzhak Sapir <yitzhaksapir AT gmail.com>

> On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 2:02 AM, James Christian wrote:
> > Please don't tell me were going to start applying circular logic again.
> > We know Hebrew had three vowels because Akkadian had three vowels, we
> know
> > this because Ugaritic did, we know this because Hebrew did... ad
> infinitum.
> > Excuse! Baking powder! Any unambiguous transliterations please?
> > Long silence. Waffle about comparative linguistics from people who
> evidently
> > still haven't understood the implications of their claims. At the end of
> it
> > all. Still no evidence! Still no transliterations!
> > James Christian
> > P.S. And yes! I already know in advance. The best I'm likely to see is
> more
> > literature suggestions which themselves still contain no evidence.
>
> No, James.
>
> This has nothing to do with Hebrew or Akkadian directly.  In fact, I
> don't see how
> any of what you wrote has anything to do with what I wrote.
>
> You have suggested:
> a) The inventors of the alphabet did not record vowels.
> b) Therefore, the inventors of the alphabet did not "actively"
> differentiate vowels.
>
> I have given you an example of:
> a) A people (those of Ugarit) who did not record vowels in an alphabetic
> system
> they invented.
> b) The same people (those of Ugarit) "actively" differentiated vowels
> in the same
> language they recorded using the alphabet when writing in a syllabic
> system.
>
> It is amazing how far you'd go to simply refuse to even read evidence
> against
> your position.
>
> Yitzhak Sapir
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