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Re: Seeking info on Old Spanish

From:Y.Penzev <yitzchaq@...>
Date:Friday, November 30, 2001, 9:20
Re: Josh Roth on Friday, November 30, 2001 8:53 AM

> >Shalom, Josh! > >Ani sameach l'hakkir otkha! > > Your Hebrew transliteration is lovely! I never bother to distinguish
het/chaf
> or write double letters. Actually, do you need that? If the "k" weren't > geminate, it would be "kh", right? But then again ... not all letters > spirantize.
It was just sponteneous, half-hazard... Still I think distinguishing between chet and khaf (or kaf and qof) is sometimes important.
> Maybe after I take a historical linguistics course :-) > Asymptote is a math term no? The line that a curve gets closer and closer
to
> but never touches (okay, I had to look it up, but then it came back to
me!)-
> math isn't my specialty, but I see your point.
A1!
> I did read once that Ossetian > was the closest thing to Scythian; I'll have to check up on that.
B'hatzlacha! Shabat (!) shalom! Yitzik