2. I am sorry, but I would not outguess the NAQDANIYM.

3. In my opinion, and experience, there is no such thing in Hebrew as a schwa mobile.

4. It is true that stress and theatrics may be achieved by elongation.

Isaac Fried, Boston University

On Jan 8, 2013, at 11:21 AM, Jonathan Mohler wrote:

The Masoretic pointing does not represent vowel grammar as much as it represents phonological phenomenon. What they attempted was to produce a phonetically accurate representation of what happens at the phonological level. Long, short and shewas are as common as flies in most languages.

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