Re: Hebrew?

> On Oct 1, 2004, at 2:49 AM, Rodlox wrote:
> >> Your message came through to my computer with a lower-case aesh and a
> >> capital aesh, and then a lowercase OE ligature ("oesh"?).  Those don't
> >> seem to make sense in context, so what were you actually asking about?
>
> >  one looks like a conjoined  AE....and hte other, like a conjoined OE.
> >  btw, what's a "ligature"? *curious*
>
> Oh, then that *is* what you meant?
> "ligature" = more than one letter written as one.  i.e. your
> 'conjoined' letters.
> So the question is, what *sounds* do you mean by AE and OE?  I can
> think of a number of possibilities for each one, based on their use in
> Latin, Old English, Modern English, French, and other languages.
 the sounds of Latin/Classical Greek/Hebrew.

Replies