[B-Greek] Koine Kasruth (Especially Keyboards)

Jason Hare jason at thehebrewcafe.com
Fri Apr 22 11:04:26 EDT 2011


B-Greekers,

I might just add to the below from Dewayne that I type in modern
Hebrew regularly, and I use the same keyboard to type in biblical
Hebrew with vowels as well. Mind you, I can't use the taamim
(cantillation marks) at all on the keyboard (I have to cut and paste
them from the character map), but I think I'm rather proficient with
pointed Hebrew. I'll agree that the system is complicated, but it's
not impossible and just requires a bit of a memory.

It's VERY easy to type in Hebrew without vowels. It's more difficult
to use vowels, but then, most of what I write is without vowels. I
only do maybe a page at a time with vowels. But, using vowels in
Hebrew isn't particularly easy, no matter which keyboard layout you
choose. (And back to Dewayne: I'm looking forward to it, too.)

Regards,
Jason Hare

> 1) The native keyboards (Greek and Israeli Hebrew were primarily, I
> suspect, created for typing the modern forms of the languages, for
> everyday communication, not for scholarly/religious use, and not,
> primarily, for typing the ancient languages. (If I'm wrong about the
> reasons for their creation, fine, but I expect not.)>
>



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