Re: disunifying Dagesh and Shuruk

From: Jonathan Rosenne (rosenne@qsm.co.il)
Date: Mon Jul 12 1999 - 19:25:33 EDT


Dear Arno,

of course people here know how to read pointed Hebrew, in spite of the fact
that you consider it difficult, but they also know that the two dots are
identical. Who will teach them to distinguish the undistinguishable? And
why should they bother to learn? After all, this illogical system has being
going on for over a thousand years.

Jony

At 20:37 12/07/99 +0200, Arno Schmitt wrote:
>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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