Re: an announcement...
| From: | Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, September 24, 1999, 3:51 |
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On Thu, 23 Sep 1999 19:17:07 -0700 Barry Garcia
<Barry_Garcia@...> writes:
> dnsulani@internet-zahav.net writes:
> > What is more interesting, perhaps, is that there are also rules for
> >writing
> >words "imported" from another language in Hebew letters without
> vowels!
> I have always wondered about that! I wonder for instance, how would
> my
> name be rendered =)? I find the semitic scripts interesting that you
> can
> get away without writing in the vowels and still understand the
> words.
Probably:
bet - (alef) - reish - yud
gimel - (alef) - reish - samekh - yud - hei/alef
There'd probably be those _alef_s in there to mark the As.
I'm not sure whether an Israeli would use _hei_ or _alef_ to mark the A
at the end of Garcia....i'd use an alef.
-Stephen (Steg)
"anxiety is the dizziness of freedom"
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