It is apparent that Dave was not addressing his suggestion to gain more knowledge to native speakers of the language, but to one who does not "communicate just fine with" Hebrew speakers and does not understand "all as read by the priest."
I am reminded about how simple it is to learn Hebrew. After all, even little children could speak it like experts! Paul Zellmer -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of fred burlingame Sent: Monday, November 08, 2010 10:28 PM To: [email protected] Cc: B-Hebrew Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] vocalization geography Thanks for your comments. I appreciate your insight. I am learning swiftly, more and more each day here. I recognize the sophistication of this masoretic text; and that a lot of it above my pay grade. But .... I continue to believe in the following outcome of the hypothetical scenario outlined below. Dave arrives at a small village in Beersheva 1172 b.c. The shepherds and farmers welcome him. After a few days, Dave advises the community leaders that: "If you really want to understand and communicate properly & effectively with your language, you need to visit and study at the library and academy in Shech-hem for a few years." I believe that the response of the community to Dave would likely have been: "We appreciate your suggestion, but we communicate just fine with one another; and furthermore, we visited hev-ron last year to hear the priest read from the Moshe book of the law. And we understood all of it as read by the priest to us." And that's where the rubber continues to meet the road ... here at b-hebrew ... regards, fred burlingame On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 6:51 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 8 Nov 2010 at 17:32, fred burlingame wrote: > > > let me see if i understand. > > > > a. the waw consecutive, changes the verb from imperfect to perfect > > tense > > here. > > No. The prefix "converts" the verb in some way that we still don't fully > understand, but > assomeone else pointed out, the resulting form is most commonly used as a > basic narrative. > > > b. but the corresponding pronunciation of the verb changes from > > imperfect to > > perfect tense pronunciation, only in hiphil form. > > It depends on a host of phonetic factors, as well as the verb itself. > There is no one "perfect > tense pronunciation" or "imperfect" tense pronunciation. > > > c. "apocopated" doesn't look any shorter to me in terms of numbers > > of > > letters in the hiphil form. > > The apocopated forms are only evident in certain verbs. You need to spend > a LOT more > time in the scholarly literature before you try to go after this aspect of > the language. > > > Dave Washburn > > http://www.nyx.net/~dwashbur > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
