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  • From: Uri Hurwitz <uhurwitz AT yahoo.com>
  • To: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [b-hebrew] Why not patah?
  • Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 17:49:39 -0800 (PST)

  It is unclear to me why you keep referring to modern Hebrew pronounciation,
when questions refer to a tradition  of
reading which existed well over a thousand years ago.

  As for hearing or not hearing a shwa na in modern Heb., may
I remind you of SHTUYOT BEMITZ? *

  Cheers,

  Uri Hurwitz   

     *stuff and nonsense                       



  I think you should add the explanation that the claim of "proper" 
pronunciation is a theoretical corollary of the dubious proposition 
that a schwa following a qamats is a schwa "NA", which should 
actually be "moved". I must say that I have never heard a-me-ru, sha-
le-xu, which also barely sound Hebrew to me.

Isaac Fried, Boston University










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