1 SHAMASH.ORG /usr/www/wwwhc/listserv/archives/heblang August 2000
2 49 46_RE: consonantal pronunciation in Modern Hebrew14_Jay F Shachter16_jay@m5.chi.il.us36_Sun, 20 Aug 200 10:11:02 -0600 (CDT)410_US-ASCII Centuries ago, Nostradamus predicted that Jerry Blaz would write on Fri Jul 28 03:36:39 2000:<br><br>> > While there are a number of fricative palatal sounds that go from the > German "noch" to the German "ich" (that in Yiddish is even softened to an > "sh" sound like in "nisht") the Xet sound is a uvular fricative, a sound > coming from behind the palate, and unknown in European languages. > [...]
52 102 48_RE: REGEL=Principle::This is Biblical! Not Later14_Russell Hendel22_rhendel@mcs.drexel.edu37_Mon, 21 Aug 2000 19:37:39 -0400 (EDT)387_- Aaron Seidman writes about the root RGL<br><br>>>A number of years ago, Mordechai Kaplan suggested that the "regel" in the phrase "al regel ehad" was a Latinism, not the Hebrew for foot. If so, he pointed out, it would make more sense because it would be having the pagan asking Hillel to explain the central principle in Judaism, not explain Judaism while standing on one foot>> [...]