Tuesday, August 30, 2005
Steg wrote:
> As far as i remember, no natural Ashkenazic dialects preserve _dageish
> hhazaq_ gemination. Individual Ashkenazim may use it, but it's a
> conscious choice.
Exactly. But somehow it seems to have escaped linguists that, as I wrote, a very strong indirect trace of it is there, at least in those dialects that make a difference between long and short vowels, such all of Western Ashkenazi, and parts of Eastern (Galicia).
Phonologically and so, halachically, IMO, this is equivalent in most cases. Guess what's the exception.
Lipman
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# posted by Mar Gavriel @ 9:02 AM 
