This is because it is easy to put vowels between the Hebrew consonants, correct?
I am thinking arithmetic and Japanese-style "goroawase" are easy to do in Hebrew if you treat the consonants as digits using the ancient system of writing numbers (no relation to the spoken names of the numbers, if I remember correctly, and thus slightly different from genuine "goroawase"). >From: "Jonathan Rosenne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "'Wm Se?n Glen'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "'Vladimir Ivanov'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: RE: Initials >Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 14:05:05 +0200 > >In Hebrew, groups of initials are normally pronounced. > >Jony > >-----Original Message----- >From: Wm Se?n Glen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2002 10:32 PM >To: Jonathan Rosenne; 'Vladimir Ivanov'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: Initials > > > > To Jonathan: > Technically, if a group of initials can be pronounced as a single >word like NASA, then it is an acronym. If one pronounces the letters >individually, then it's not an acronym, it's just a group of letters. > > Wm Se$BaO(B Glen > > _____ > > _________________________________________________________________ $B%a!<%k%5!<%S%9$O!"@$3&(B No.1 $B$N(B MSN Hotmail $B$G!*(Bhttp://www.hotmail.com/JA/
