"Isaac Fried" <[email protected]> wrote:
1. I am not aware of the existence in Hebrew of "langue" and "parole".
2. It is crystal clear that "There is no "gemination" in spoken Hebrew".
Why not? Because it is not needed.
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Another Saussurian dichotomy is diachronic / synchronic.
It seems to me that you are denying the diachronic existence of geminates in
*Ancient* Hebrew because your own speech in the XXIst century does not
display them.
Are you claiming that your own speech is representative of Ancient Hebrew
3500 years ago?
A
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2. I have never heard any spoken distinction between: -yamim (no
gemination), days (Gn 4:3) and -yammim (gemination), seas (Ps 8:9).
3. You are right all these claims are merely "well-grounded traditions
(TRADITIONS!) within the Hebrew grammar".
4. I am still waiting to see a good "proof", within the Hebrew language,
for an earlier existence of this spoken "gemination" (no Arabic, please).
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The best proof seems to be that it is actually recorded in writing, or is it
not?
Arnaud Fournet
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