Re: an announcement...

On Wed, 22 Sep 1999 10:43:58 -0400 John Cowan <cowan@...>
writes:
> > and a
> > proposal for including a Hebrew glyph for the Tetragrammation
> (proposal
> > devised by none other than Mark Shoulson!  where is he by the
> way...)
> This proposal is going to wither on the vine, though, as the
> Israelis
> oppose it: it unifies away too much, and plain-text search is not
> a serious option for Hebrew anyway; modern Hebrew doesn't even have
> a standard orthography....
> --
> John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
>        I am a member of a civilization. --David Brin
I don't see a use for using a single glyph for the Tetragrammaton....it
wouldn't be used that much at all anyway, on a webpage, and if someone
wanted to they'd just type out the four letters....not much of a
difference.
From what i've seen, modern Hebrew actually does have guidelines laid
down by the Aqademya ha3Ivrit for vowelless orthography - when to double
vavs and yuds, what vowels can be represented by them and which can't,
etc.  I don't know if everyone goes by the rules, though.  I sure don't
all the time :) .


-Stephen (Steg), who likes using _aleph_ for word-final /a/ in names.
 "inspiration is no substitute for vigilance; or, don't start singing
loudly to yourself unless you KNOW noone's watching"

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