Re: disunifying Dagesh and Shuruk

From: Arno Schmitt (arno@zedat.fu-berlin.de)
Date: Mon Jul 12 1999 - 14:37:46 EDT


Jonathan Rosenne schrieb:
>
> Dear Arno,
>
> How can you disunify what only a few academics can distinguish? Who will
> then do the typing?
>
Everybody who speaks Hebrew knows the difference between /ww/ and
/u/.
So to _write_ dagesh (that turns /f/ into /p/, /ch/ into /k/, /s/
into /ss/, /w/ into /ww/) or shuruk (that turns /w/ into /u/) is
very simple. To _read_ that in bad typography (based on imprecise
encoding) is more difficult.



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