tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Jun 16 12:10:53 1996
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Re: Rampant Punctaution
- From: "AdmiralTAG" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Rampant Punctaution
- Date: Sun, 16 Jun 1996 22:14:16 +0000
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~mark wrote:
> Old Hebrew prayers had no punctuation in
>the original, but most modern prayer-books use Western
>punctuation (periods, commas) to indicate the phrases
True. But only these two marks--my Hebrew keyboard has no
provision for colons or semi-colons. I have to switch to English
to get those characters.
>Hell, the earliest Hebrew,
>the earliest versions of the Bible, had no *vowels* written, but
>they're written in now, as a convenience to modern readers.
Depends where you are. I grant you that outside of Israel,
particularly with beginners, vowels are used, but here, once
yo've got a third grade education, you're expected to do fine
without vowels. Heck, if I had to remember when to use a patach
and when a komatz, I'd be in deep trouble.
BTW, Lawrence and ~mark, y'all don't expect the Hebrew
translation to have vowels, do you? Because none of my
word-processing porgrams even support the little suckers...
Maybe the Kllingons are like the Israelis in this--punctuation
is used when learning the language, and implicitly understood by
those fluent.
~Doq
W
e're not Klingons,