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

I really want to understand this. Are you saying that the dagesh in,  
say, the word GUMAC (גומץ Eccl. 10:8) has (or had) a phonemic  
function?

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Oct 31, 2010, at 7:18 AM, Randall Buth wrote:

> That's what happens when languages have phonemic change.
> Same thing happened to Greek about 2200 years ago.
>
> On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 8:48 PM, Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu> wrote:
> > "Dropped out"? Just like that? And no one missing it?
> > Isaac Fried, Boston University
> > On Oct 30, 2010, at 8:57 PM, Randall Buth wrote:
> >
> > Length has dropped out of Hebrew dialects today
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