I mean "see" in the literal sense. I see an orphaned Hiriq squeezed between the Lamed and the Mem.
Similarly for the other examples given, both Biblical and modern. Jony > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Kirk > Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 5:11 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: SPAM: Re: SPAM: Re: Yerushala(y)im - or Biblical Hebrew > > > On 08/07/2003 08:38, Jony Rosenne wrote: > > >Just a reminder that the statement of the problem has not > been agreed > >to. I don't see a vowel sequence in Yerushala(y)im. > > > >Jony > > > > > > > I take your point. But I think it depends quite what you mean > be "see". > If you mean "understand", or "hear", you are quite correct. > As I pointed > out before, no one pronounced a vowel sequence and no one > ever intended > one to be understood. The hiriq vowel is intended to go with > a consonant > which is not visible but whose presence is assumed. But if we > understand > "see" in a strict visual sense, we must agree that what we see on the > paper is two vowels under one consonant. And if the decision > is made to > encode what appears on the paper rather than what it is supposed to > mean, then we have to find some way to encode a vowel sequence. > > -- > Peter Kirk > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://web.onetel.net.uk/~peterkirk/ > > > > >
