Michael:

I’ve noticed in poetry that we get a meter, a rhythm, if we pronounce all
written letters as consonants, followed by vowels. We get that only if we
ignore the Masoretic points, or read a text without them.

>From where do you get your Canaanite language examples?

Karl W. Randolph.


On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 7:27 PM, Michael Abernathy <
[email protected]> wrote:

>  I don't want to stir this pot but I do have a question.  If the Hebrew
> prefix form derived from or was influenced by the Canaanite language would
> we have any clue in a unpointed Hebrew text as to whether a verb would be
> heard as either a *yaqtulu* or *yaqtul?  *I can't help thinking that the
> original pronunciation may have made the use clearer.
> Sincerely,
> Michael Abernathy
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