Bear with me, here. :-)

yochanan bitan ButhFam at compuserve.com
Fri Oct 22 04:41:48 EDT 1999


xaire yosef,
i am glad to see you paying attention to good pronunciation and applaud
what you are doing. everything was clear except one point, so i'll ask it
only. your dialect will be mutually intelligible when we speak so don't
give up.

<<do you pronounce present tense and present subjunctive same or different
>>(blepei/bleph)?
>>how about future versus aorist subjunctive? lusei versus lush?>>

>JAF: Yes!  I work at making the appropriate long/short distinctions
between
>H/E and W/O.  I also work at keeping H undipthongized (without a closing
>semivowel glide).

does that mean that you pronounce "blepei" with a glide, and "blepH"
without? 
such would be consistent, and more kudos. 

for the record, the post-alexander-ian greek world kept them apart by
pronoucing "blepei" as [vle'pi] ([v] is roman period) and [vle'pE] ([E] was
'closer, higher-tongued' than [e] 'bet''get')

erroso
randall buth



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