On 2003-01-15, Guy Baruch wrote: > > OK, I accept. It seems that a new hebrew SHORESH (root ?) is needed > in any case.
Agreed completely. > since a new shoresh will sound awkward no matter what > the choice is, I do indeed suggest Hei.Kav.Reish > The stem being of foreign origin, Kuv seems to me more natural that Kav? > (and here I'll use non-capital h for Hei like in hELENA) > > so the HATAYOT will be exactly like in Heit.Kav.Reish : > > past: > hAKART[I|A|_|EM|EN] , hAKAR[_|A|U] > > present: > hOKER[ |ET |IM |OT] > > future: > EhEKOR, TAhAK[OR|RU|ORNA], TAhKERI, YAhAKERU > The trouble is that to distinguish this from both Ain.Kuv.Riesh (LAAKOR) and Heit.Kuf.Reish (LACHAKOR), one needs to say it really carefully - which is very hard. I don't have any really good words either. My best idea currently is to steal from the stem of "computer" (which leads to a natural pun on "think") resulting in Tav.Heit.Shin.Vet: hacker - TAHSHAV or TAHSHEVAN hack - TIHSHUV hacked [past] - TIHSHEV Hmm, that sounds a bit too familiar, is it taken already? -- Beni Cherniavsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Holy resolution for a holy war: the Torah stores most numbers as little-endian (e.g. "seven and twenty and a hundred years")! ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
