Ted Hopp wrote on 07/29/2003 01:20:08 PM:This is the moot point.
These different uses for the same (or approximately same) glyphs
Well, are the glyphs the same, or only approximately the same?
For qamats and sheva, the glyphs are usually and traditionally the same, but occasionally they are written differently. It's rather as if someone decided in English to start writing consonant and vowel y differently, Or as must have happened when people first started to distinguish i and j, or u and v.
For the two positions of holam on vav, the glyphs have been written differently in MSS and by careful typographers for a thousand years, but some typographers and computer equipment make the glyphs identical, probably originally as a shortcut.
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