Re: Second invention of the alphabet?

Peter T. Daniels scripsit:

> Does he claim the name of <t> is <dof>?

Why would he? Its name is "sof".

> > Sorry, Peter, that's a dodge. Just because they are obligatory
> > doesn't mean they aren't the points QAMATS and PATAH.
>
> They were, historically. In Yiddish, they aren't.

That might work for "a" and "o", but it doesn't account for the use
of yod with hiriq, which is used if and only if it would be ambiguous
to omit it, just as with lightly pointed Hebrew text.

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