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  • From: fred burlingame <tensorpath AT gmail.com>
  • To: Arnaud Fournet <fournet.arnaud AT wanadoo.fr>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] the little things
  • Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2010 11:12:31 -0500

Hello Arnaud:

now we making progress.

i am indeed happy to see your approval of kevin and karl's comments.

regards,

fred burlingame

On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Arnaud Fournet
<fournet.arnaud AT wanadoo.fr>wrote:

>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "K Randolph" <kwrandolph AT gmail.com>
> To: "fred burlingame" <tensorpath AT gmail.com>
> Cc: <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2010 3:00 AM
> Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] the little things
>
>
> Fred:
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 8:22 PM, fred burlingame <tensorpath AT gmail.com
>> >wrote:
>>
>> Hello Karl:
>>>
>>> It occurs to me that Kevin perhaps observed above, that the masoretic
>>> text
>>> nikkud points, simply represent the manner in which the masoretes chanted
>>> the text in liturgical settings. If this is so, how do we know how
>>> any biblical hebrew is vocalized?
>>>
>>>
>>> We don’t know, and that is one of the continuing disagreements between me
>> and Randall. When even the meanings as indicated by some of the points are
>> wrong, even according to their own system, then how can that be an
>> accurate
>> transcription of Biblical pronunciation?
>>
>> Pere Porta has indicated that he has found 8000 different grammatical
>> patterns in Masoretic Hebrew. I have heard from several sources that the
>> average working man has a working vocabulary of 2500–3000 unique terms. No
>> way is the language that complex!
>>
>
>
> If Pere is correct, and I don’t doubt him,
>> then that indicates to me that the Masoretes didn’t have a unified
>> grammatical system, rather they pointed more or less ad hoc to fit their
>> chanting tradition.
>>
> ***
>
> You ARE insane.
>
> Arnaud Fournet
>
> ***
>
>
>
>>
>>> regards,
>>>
>>> fred burlingame
>>>
>>> Karl W. Randolph.
>>>
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