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Re: [b-hebrew] verb form - Proverbs 31:10-31

From: Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>
To: Jonathan Mohler <jonathan.mohler AT gmail.com>
Cc: "b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org Hebrew" <b-hebrew AT lists.ibiblio.org>, nir AT ccet.ufrn.br
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] verb form - Proverbs 31:10-31
Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 00:23:12 -0400

You are right. The "modal feel" is, indeed, a personal supplemental touch to the English for the pleasure of garnishing and fictionally inflating the terse Hebrew text.

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Sep 10, 2013, at 1:19 AM, Jonathan Mohler wrote:

Supplying "can" to the translation is not word for word, but it tries to capture the modal feel.

Re: [b-hebrew] verb form - Proverbs 31:10-31, Jonathan Mohler, 09/09/2013
- Re: [b-hebrew] verb form - Proverbs 31:10-31, Isaac Fried, 09/09/2013
  - Re: [b-hebrew] verb form - Proverbs 31:10-31, Jonathan Mohler, 09/10/2013
    - Re: [b-hebrew] verb form - Proverbs 31:10-31, Isaac Fried, 09/11/2013
- Re: [b-hebrew] verb form - Proverbs 31:10-31, K Randolph, 09/10/2013
  - Re: [b-hebrew] verb form - Proverbs 31:10-31, Jonathan Mohler, 09/10/2013
    - Re: [b-hebrew] verb form - Proverbs 31:10-31, K Randolph, 09/11/2013
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: [b-hebrew] verb form - Proverbs 31:10-31, Rolf Furuli, 09/10/2013
- Re: [b-hebrew] verb form - Proverbs 31:10-31, Jonathan Mohler, 09/11/2013
- Re: [b-hebrew] verb form - Proverbs 31:10-31, Rolf Furuli, 09/11/2013
  - Re: [b-hebrew] verb form - Proverbs 31:10-31, Isaac Fried, 09/11/2013
  - Re: [b-hebrew] verb form - Proverbs 31:10-31, K Randolph, 09/11/2013