<div dir="ltr">No offense, but have you ever tried to explain the crazy "deramah" exception to somebody who is not a Hebrew cataloger?<div><br></div><div>Whoever has the power could just have eliminated the exception instead of adding to it.</div><div><br></div><div>All linguistic systems tend to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regularization_(linguistics)">regularization</a>. In any codification system, the more exceptions you add to rules, the less effective the code is.</div><div><br></div><div dir="rtl">שבת שלום ומעדים לשמחה</div><div dir="rtl"><br></div><div>Neil</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 5:44 PM, Heidi G Lerner <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lerner@stanford.edu" target="_blank">lerner@stanford.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p>I would certainly think so. I can't think why not.</p>
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<p>The wod, while not of themselves completely foreign words: they are based on one.</p>
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<p>Just my thoughts.</p>
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<p>Best, Heidi</p>
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<p>Heidi G. Lerner</p>
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<p>ph: <a href="tel:650-725-9953" value="+16507259953" target="_blank">650-725-9953</a></p>
<p>fax: <a href="tel:650-725-1120" value="+16507251120" target="_blank">650-725-1120</a></p>
<p>e-mail: <a href="mailto:lerner@stanford.edu" target="_blank">lerner@stanford.edu</a></p>
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<div dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> Shinohara, Jasmin <<a href="mailto:jshino@pobox.upenn.edu" target="_blank">jshino@pobox.upenn.edu</a>><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, April 28, 2016 2:13 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Hebrew Name Authority Funnel<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Heidi G Lerner<br>
<b>Subject:</b> words starting with דרמ-</font>
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<span>HCM2 clearly states </span><span lang="HE" dir="RTL" style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">דרמה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span><span dir="LTR"></span> as exception to vocalization of foreign loan words (“</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">first
</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">she</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt">ṿ</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">a
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">in a foreign loan word with an initial consonantal cluster is generally treated as a
</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">she</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt">ṿ</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">a na</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt">ḥ</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt">…</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt">”</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">
cf. p. 19). Do other words starting with that </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt">“</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">root</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt">”</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">
follow that same exception, e.g. <span lang="HE" dir="RTL">דרמטורגיה</span></span><span lang="HE" dir="RTL" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">, דרמטי, דרמטיזציה</span><span dir="LTR"></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif""><span dir="LTR"></span>,
etc.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">?</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif""></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Unicode MS","sans-serif"">Thank, Jasmin</span><span></span></p>
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