From: John Hudson (tiro@tiro.com)
Date: Thu Jul 03 2003 - 13:15:36 EDT
At 08:52 03/07/2003, Peter_Constable@sil.org wrote:
>I consider this reasoning flawed,
>however: the encoded representation is a representation of the *text*, not
>the phonology, and the text most certainly does include sequences such as
>lamed patah hiriq.
Indeed, and it contains them because the Masoretes insisted on faithfully
preserving the consonant structure of the ancient manuscript. There is not
an 'implied' consonant in the text: there is a very explicit and intended
absence of a consonant that precedes the vocalisation and is maintained
regardless of the vocalisation.
John Hudson
Tiro Typeworks www.tiro.com
Vancouver, BC tiro@tiro.com
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