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  • From: Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>
  • To: Pere Porta <pporta7 AT gmail.com>
  • Cc: b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Someone knows?
  • Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 06:37:24 -0400

Yes! In Rt 1:7 IMAH has a dagesh in the M instead of a yod. In Rt 1:18 ITAH has a dagesh in the T instead of a yod. In 1Sm 1:13 LIBH has a dagesh in the B instead of a yod.
I find the spelling אימא with a yod not only offensive, but also an insult to the human intelligence.
The occasional "debates" within the Israeli society about reforming the Hebrew script are exercises in futility; orthodoxy will never allow it.
There is this interesting instance of the spelling of HERAYON, 'pregnency', that the Hebrew "Academy" "mandates" should be written HYRAYON with a yod, an "edict" routinely spurned by the public.

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Apr 18, 2011, at 2:11 AM, Pere Porta wrote:

Isaac,

I remark in you some rebellion or disdain or contempt of the "official" spellings.

You should deepen more into these "official" spellings, namely those of the Academy of the Hebrew Language (and not those of Wikipedia).

In the hasar haniqud, )M) takes a yud -)YM)-, yes.

But (MH (Rt 1:7), )TH (Rt 1:18); LBH (1Sm 1:13) and many others take NO yud.

We all -me, Pere, included- need a cure of humility, Isaac.

Concerning you proposal of keeping the dagesh even in the usual unpointed Israeli script, have you followed these last times the debate on the Reform of the Hebrew writing, which debate was born just inside the Academy and was started by M. Mishor ( himself a member of the Academy)?

Heartly,

Pere Porta
(Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain)







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