Peter T. Daniels wrote:

>Richard Wordingham wrote:
>
>
>>There's no reason to believe ayin had been lost before the text was pointed.
>>Many of the minor peculiarites of the lamedh guttural verbs may however be
>>late, as the taw of the endings is dagesh (plosive) rather than raphe
>>(fricative) despite the pathah between the guttural and the taw.
>>Unfortunately for me, I don;t think there's any reason to believe it was a
>>glottal stop.
>>
>>
>
>"Furtive patach" is a late, Masoretic invention. (So is the
>fricativization, carried over from Aramaic.)
>

Two different matters being discussed here. Richard Wordingham is
talking about peculiarities in the conjugation of lamed-gutteral verbs,
specifically about stuff that happens at the end, *after* the last
radical. This is not a matter of furtive patah, which occurs only at
the end of a word (which is not to say that there might not be some
relationships between the phenomena, but they're not the same thing).

~mark