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From: "Kevin Riley" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2010 1:30 AM
Subject: Re: [b-hebrew] Simple Pronunciation Question...
Karl,
Something that has puzzled me for a while: what evidence do you have that
Hebrew - or any other ancient language - had a one-to-one correspondence
between letter and sound? Does not the evidence from most languages point
the other way?
Kevin Riley
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In general, writing at its beginning is defective: it does not write
everything that is actually uttered.
Then it tends to become exhaustive,
Afterwards it tends to become orthographic: a lot of signs are in fact
useless and more or less disconnected with speech.
It seems to me that Ancient Hebrew is closer to defective than exhaustive.
One-to-one seems fairly reasonable in that case.
Arnaud Fournet
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