> > thanks for the info
> > it's interesting...
> > so where did all the vowels go?
MOst Hebrew is written without the vowel sounds. Th e vowels are written as
dots underneath the consonants, and only very elementary books ( up to about
4th or 5th grade level) and Conservative Synagogue prayer books are written
with "nekudot" - dots - ie vowels).
I have great difficulty in reading without the nekudot - never having learned
to do so, and that is why
1 i joined the conservative Synagogue
2. I consider myself illiterate in Hebrew tho i am totally fluent - i can
barely read the newspaper headlines!
When Janet 'invented' that off-time shorthand , it made me think straight away
of Hebrew
Hilary Blue
it seems like vowels were banned but consonants were not?
> > god = unacceptable use
> > but
> > g-d = acceptable use
> >
> > did this apply only to the written word,
> > or to the spoken word as well?
> >
> > hmmm, how would one speak without vowels?
>,,.............................
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