Re: Second invention of the alphabet?

At 18:56 -0400 2004-05-27, Peter T. Daniels wrote:

>Neither veyz nor ey appears in the WWS list of names;

So? WWS is not perfect. The names I gave come from Weinreich's
College Yiddish, YIVO Institute 1971 (5th revised edition, 7th
printing 1990)

>and those "points" are not used in Yiddish orthography, only letters
>in which the Hebrew points with those names appear are. In Yiddish,
>they're not separable from the "consonants" on which they ride.

Sorry, Peter, that's a dodge. Just because they are obligatory
doesn't mean they aren't the points QAMATS and PATAH.

>I still don't know what "SIN DOT in SIN" is.

Shin with a dot indicating it is [s] not [S].
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