[Mesorah] malei de malei rule?

[Micha Berger]

On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 10:44:46AM -0500, Michael Poppers wrote:
: Perhaps the "no malei-malei for two-syllable plural nouns" theory is 
: limited to when the same vowel occurs twice?

But we started with the non-plural "tzitzis" and the two different
vowels of "luchos".

I'm wondering if any of this reflects on the authenticity of rules of
havarah... Or if they prove RSMandel's thesis that imei hamiqra don't
modify the vowel...

:-)BBii!
-Micha