[arachne] Re: The Bible says ...

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My error ... my hands type one word when my mind is saying another. I meant to say "No VOWELS" ... sorry for any confusion (also sorry I ended up looking like a fool).

l.d.
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Peter Lawrence wrote: 
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On Sat, 29 Oct 2005 17:41:17 -0400, L.D. Best wrote:

Ancient Hebrew totally lacks any verbs in the written form. 


Oh? I thought it was just the infinitives that were lacking (apart from
one infinitive absolute), with the vowels being what were missing when
written.

  Many words

are 'clued' exactly the same in written form, while being totally
different in actuality.  Think of trying to figure out if "ft" means
fat, fit, fight, foot, etc. simply by seeing the two consonants ...
pretty tough.


That also enabled deliberate "puns" which could convey several meanings. 

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