1 SHAMASH.ORG /usr/www/wwwhc/listserv/archives/heblang May 2000
2 69 69_Re: RESPONSE to Monica on K-Tz-Hey--Methodology for inferring Grammar14_Russell Hendel22_rhendel@mcs.drexel.edu36_Thu, 4 May 2000 18:28:21 -0400 (EDT)547_- Well apparently the horse isn't dead. Its alive and kicking. If Monica wants I will leave her out of this. But I cannot like her assume that it is ONLY IN THIS INSTANCE that the scholars she cites thought the END IN HAY and END IN AYIN interchange.<br><br>I repeat what I said (and thereby answer Monica's question). Depending on your favorite 'original' pronunciation of AYIN it is clear that an AYIN is (a) either like a HAY and silent (though I tend to doubt this)( or more probably (b) an AYIN is a guttural letter that is difficult to [...]
72 112 69_Re: RESPONSE to Monica on K-Tz-Hey--Methodology for inferring Grammar10_Jerry Blaz19_ffdog@earthlink.net31_Thu, 04 May 2000 18:07:33 -0700517_iso-8859-1 I am but a "bar be-rav deXad yoma" in the intricacies of Hebrew grammar, but this seems more like a phonetic problem than a grammatical problem per se.<br><br>There are ways of getting a surmise on the relationship of Hey and Ayin by looking for sound shifts from dialect to dialect. This is more difficult than in many sound shift studies in among other languages because many of the dialects and languages from which different sound shifts have occured in Hebrew are no longer vernacular languages. [...]
185 50 69_Re: RESPONSE to Monica on K-Tz-Hey--Methodology for inferring Grammar13_Monica Devens17_mdevens@yahoo.com36_Thu, 4 May 2000 20:16:06 -0700 (PDT)583_us-ascii Unfortunately I just sent my response directly to Russell, rather than change the address in the to: line, so here goes again.<br><br>--- Russell Hendel <rhendel@mcs.drexel.edu> wrote: > Well apparently the horse isn't dead. Its alive and kicking. If Monica > wants I will leave her out of this. But I cannot like her assume that it > is ONLY IN THIS INSTANCE that the scholars she cites thought the END IN HAY > and END IN AYIN interchange. > > I repeat what I said (and thereby answer Monica's question). Depending on > your favorite 'original' pronunciation of AYIN [...]