Help w/Hebrew alphabet?
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If someone has this, can they xpost it back to rec.arts.books?
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Subject: Re: re-reading _Moby Dick_
From: "Evelyn C. Leeper" <ec...@hobcs1.mt.lucent.com>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.books
Date: 11 Mar 1998 20:42:17 GMT
In article <350...@netdirect.net>,
Michael S. Morris <msm...@netdirect.net> wrote:
msm>
msm> By the way, I check in the LoA edition of Melville and
msm> the Hebrew letter I was calling "h" looks (at least
msm> topologically) like this:
msm> ______________
msm> | |
msm> | |
msm> | |
msm> | |
msm> | |
msm> | |
msm> I hope that sets right, but anyway, like a Greek letter pi.
msm> That is, checking against my Hebrew alphabet (the one
msm> in the front of the _Oxford Companion to the Bible_),
msm> it's a "t". And yet, stare as I might at the same letter
msm> in my cheap edition of Melville that I've actually been
msm> reading, it looks like:
msm> ______________
msm> |
msm> |
msm> |
msm> | |
msm> | |
msm> | |
msm> That is, like a pi with the upper half of the left leg
msm> missing, which looks like the thing I was calling
msm> a Hebrew "h". I suspect that maybe the editor of
msm> my cheap edition of _M-D_ knew no Hebrew at all, and just
msm> typeset it wrong.
Oh, boy, the joys of using ASCII art for other alphabets. :-(
Both are apparently versions of "h", though I can remember only the
latter from my Hebrew classes. "T", on the other hand is very like the
first version of "h" you have drawn, but with a little "tail" off the
left leg:
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As you can see, the possibilities for confusion are endless.
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