I think that this last missive was in Klingon :)

A quick review of the wiki articles about Hebrew and the Hebrew
Alphabet seems to indicate that it was traditionally written with no
vowels, at some point various marks were introduced to indicate
vowels, and there now exists a major variant which has full symbols
for vowels. However, the structure of the language is such that, in
most cases, the consonants are enough to at least determine the root
word, so it seems that the ambiguity you are talking about is much
less likely in Hebrew.

On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 12:21 AM, cdb <colin@btech-online.co.uk> wrote:
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> :::: > Mayhaps
> ::::
> :::: =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0jup wIj loDnI' jIH?
> ::::
> :::: sufficeth.
> ::::
> :: "I am my littermate's jailer"? OK, I guess :)
>
> Hang on, I thought Hebrew was one of those languages where vowels aren't
> written so context is needed to make a sentence such as - h st dwn by hs
> dry =A0 =A0- which could be read as - He sat down by his dairy or he sat =
down
> by his diary. Or is that only ' official ' scribings where that happens?
>
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