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2 695 27_The Rick & Izzy show (long)11_Cohen, Izzy18_Izzy_Cohen@bmc.com31_Sun, 21 May 2000 10:17:46 -0500431_ISO-8859-1 Dear Rick et al. --<br><br>In an earlier posting entitled "The Rick & Izzy show" I 'threatened' to post<br><br>aleph-GHT parallels which account for most of the currently existing English words which contain GHT (excluding the past tense of verbs which do not have a T-sound in their present tense: bought, brought, sought, ought). The parallels include many GHT words which are now archaic or obsolete in English. [...]
698 37 36_RE: Direction of Phonetic Degeneracy14_Russell Hendel22_rhendel@mcs.drexel.edu37_Sun, 21 May 2000 23:26:44 -0400 (EDT)469_- Jerry Blaz asks >>>>>> I have one brief question to Russell. Time and again, during this interesting thread, I have seen you state that the ayin "degenerated" into a heh. What convinces you that this is the direction of the change? Why could the quasi-materis heh have become the throatal fricative-constrictive ayin? What determined the direction of change, and how does the statistical analysis hold up when the asssumed direction of change is tested? >>>>>>> [...]
736 65 35_Comments on Statistical Methodology14_Russell Hendel22_rhendel@mcs.drexel.edu37_Sun, 21 May 2000 23:27:26 -0400 (EDT)361_- Just some comments on Monica (and Ruthanna's) response to my request for some statistical methodology discussion.<br><br>1) Monica is right that statistics can be used to lie. BUT...a trained statistician KNOWS how to design his experiments and hypothesii so that doesn't happened. In other words, one of the purposes of training is to avoid such things [...]
802 38 64_HAY can function as definite article or as Proper name indicator14_Russell Hendel22_rhendel@mcs.drexel.edu37_Sun, 21 May 2000 23:28:13 -0400 (EDT)474_- Just a short note to Tusugya, Ruthanna and the other discussants on the HAY issue(Tusugya, thanks for the nice Bibliography)<br><br>It has been assumed that >HAY = THE and the only question is >where this usage came from.<br><br><br><br>However I would like to suggest the possibility that HAY can function in other ways. In fact >HAY can function as a definite article (THE) >HAY can also function as an INDICATOR of a PROPER NOUN STATUS (Like a capital in English) [...]
841 163 60_Posting from Rashi is simple: Ansswers Miller:Devins:Barnett14_Russell Hendel22_rhendel@mcs.drexel.edu37_Sun, 21 May 2000 23:30:11 -0400 (EDT)471_- VERSE: v1z6-9 ======<br><br>Rashi is Simplist, Akiva Miller recently asked on the email group HebLang, why Gods name, >ELOKIM = GOD sometimes has a definite article before it >HaELOKIM = THE GOD. In other words what does the phrase >THE GOD mean? When is it used?<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>After reviewing several examples I discovered that according to Rashi >HAELOKIM is used when talking about >Judicial process, a court case. Let us look at some examples [...]