Hi all,
recent discussions have reminded me of a point which I
have never really fully resolved in my mind. The whole
point of the Massoretic pointing system was to preserve
the pronunciation by introducing *non ambiguous*
representation of vowels.
Why would the massoretes betray this goal by giving
the point which represents Schewa a dual role? And so,
I guess what I'm really asking is, is there any real
evidence that Schewa was used by the Massoretes to
close a syllable rather than to represent a vowel?
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James Christian Read - BSc Computer Science
http://www.lamie.org/hebrew - thesis1: concept driven machine translation using the Aleppo codex
http://www.lamie.org/lad-sim.doc - thesis2: language acquisition simulation
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