<html><head></head><body lang="en-US" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: initial;"> <div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">"<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: initial;">I make sure to end the "y" aspect of the</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: initial;"> <br></span><i style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: initial;">chiriq</i><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: initial;"> </span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: initial;">before beginning the next/last vowel, and [not so] tangentially the result is a bit of emphasis upon that last vowel. Whether that fulfills the intent of the</span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: initial;"> </span><i style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: initial;">mappiq aleph</i><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: initial;">, I cannot say....</span></div><div><div style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">All the best from</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size: large;"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif" color="#9900ff"><i>Michael Poppers</i></font><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"> * </span><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000">Elizabeth, NJ, USA"</font></div><div style="font-size: large;"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div style="font-size: large;"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000">This seems to slightly resemble the dageish after an aleph with a sh'va nach which Heidenheim points EG:</font></div><div style="font-size: large;"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div style="font-size: large;"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000">Le'sor malcheihem</font></div><div style="font-size: large;"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000">And</font></div><div style="font-size: large;"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000">Vaye'sor es richbo.</font></div><div style="font-size: large;"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div style="font-size: large;"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000">Iirc. </font></div><div style="font-size: large;"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div style="font-size: large;"><font face="georgia, serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: initial;">‎Aiui this dageish is also in order to avoid "slurring" the segol into the samech without a proper "pause"</span></div><div style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: initial;"><br></span></div><div style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; line-height: initial;"><br></span></div></div><div><br></div></body></html>