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1. Ok, I will shout it louder (for extra effect I would go also up the roof of my house, but it is buried now in snow, and I can not wait) THE THINKING THAT A DIFFERENT GRAPHICAL NIQUD MARKING IS DESIGNED TO REPRESENT A DIFFERENT VOCALIZATION IS GROUNDLESS; in plain English it is baloney, concocted ex-nihilo by some latter-day Hebrew "grammarians". 2. This science of the Hebrew "grammar" that "teaches" of "long" and "short" vowels is obsolete. I have just read an article in an Israeli newspaper by someone calling for the outright abolition from the school of this frightfully kooky and annoying subject called לשון LA$ON. 4. Consider now this meshugas of the Hebrew "Academy" imposed by decree on the announcers of the Israeli TV. So goes their talmudic pilpul (aka Hebrew grammar): An initial schwa is a schwa "mobile". A BKP letter following such a schwa must remain dageshless, and is therefore read (why is not revealed to us) softly. Since no living Hebrew announcer is capable of distinguishing between a soft kaf and a xet, the place name כרם שלום KEREM $ALOM ("the vineyard of peace", at a Gaza crossing) become in their articulated mouth בחרם שלום B-XEREM $ALOM, ("in the boycott of peace"). Isaac Fried, Boston University On Feb 17, 2013, at 1:06 PM, Uri Hurwitz wrote:
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