1. Can you, Isaac, provide the exact place of the rule of the Academy stating that "herayon" (Rt 4:13) has to be written "HYRAYON" (namely with included yod) in the hasar haniqud?
2. Remark that the proposal of a reform of the Hebrew script came from a member of a quite "orthodox" institution, the Academy of the Hebrew Language.
Regards,
Pere Porta
2011/4/18 Isaac Fried <if AT math.bu.edu>
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
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