[Mesorah] mis-accentuation

[Micha Berger]

On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 09:22:46PM +0200, David and Esther Bannett wrote:
:> I thought the chumash was lost from the Keter before it reached Jewish
:> hands. How does BI have a copy its contents?

: BI used a computer on the Keter to get statistics. For example, if a
: certain style of word had a meteg in the vast majority of
: apearances, they made it a klall and used that form in other places.
: Thus they reconstituted the parts of the Keter that were missing.

Of course, that guarantees erasing the exceptions that TSBP statements
were hung on. (Like "Mi kamokha needar baqodesh", with a kaf degushah
on that iteration, in contrast to the grammatically normal first "Mi
khamokha ba'eilim...")

: Using their klallim. they took a piece of the keter and removed all
: nikkud and  t'amim,  They then replaced the nikkud and t'amim
: according to their klallim and compared it with the original.  They
: had over 90% hat'ama.

I wonder what people who do statistical analysis of texts, like Moshe Koppel
or Shlomo Argamon-Engleson, think of their work.

So, I CC-ed them.

Tir'u baTov!
-Micha

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