[Mesorah] karva shenas hasheva

[Mike Stein]

I believe both are (should be) milra'. Indeed, you couldn't have a
qamatz qatan in an accented first syllable.  It's only the shva which
distinguishes them.  (Or maybe doesn't distinguish them according to
Ben Asher :).)

Mike

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 03:33:44PM -0400, Gershon Dubin wrote:
> What I'm hearing is that korva (kamatz katan, mil'el) is tzivui.
> korva (kamatz gadol, mil'ra) is present perfect/past.
> 
> So if the koreh read it mil'ra, and some of those present thought he said
> sheva nach (he didn't; c'est moi)(tough crowd, let me tell you!)
> the meaning is not strictly either.  Correct?
> 
> Gershon
> gershon.dubin at juno.com
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