Hello Arnaud: now we making progress.
i am indeed happy to see your approval of kevin and karl's comments. regards, fred burlingame On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 10:18 AM, Arnaud Fournet <[email protected]>wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "K Randolph" <[email protected]> > To: "fred burlingame" <[email protected]> > Cc: <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2010 3:00 AM > Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] the little things > > > Fred: >> >> On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 8:22 PM, fred burlingame <[email protected] >> >wrote: >> >> Hello Karl: >>> >>> It occurs to me that Kevin perhaps observed above, that the masoretic >>> text >>> nikkud points, simply represent the manner in which the masoretes chanted >>> the text in liturgical settings. If this is so, how do we know how >>> any biblical hebrew is vocalized? >>> >>> >>> We don’t know, and that is one of the continuing disagreements between me >> and Randall. When even the meanings as indicated by some of the points are >> wrong, even according to their own system, then how can that be an >> accurate >> transcription of Biblical pronunciation? >> >> Pere Porta has indicated that he has found 8000 different grammatical >> patterns in Masoretic Hebrew. I have heard from several sources that the >> average working man has a working vocabulary of 2500–3000 unique terms. No >> way is the language that complex! >> > > > If Pere is correct, and I don’t doubt him, >> then that indicates to me that the Masoretes didn’t have a unified >> grammatical system, rather they pointed more or less ad hoc to fit their >> chanting tradition. >> > *** > > You ARE insane. > > Arnaud Fournet > > *** > > > >> >>> regards, >>> >>> fred burlingame >>> >>> Karl W. Randolph. >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> b-hebrew mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew >> >> > > > _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
