Re: accents

[Robert Cohen <rlcm17...>]

Could you give some (i.e., specific) examples that are actually encountered 
in liturgy where changing the accent changes meaning and/or tense?

--Robert Cohen


>But ... caution is required here: Switching the accented syllable in a
>Hebrew word may change its meaning or its tense from future to past, etc.
>This is a particular problem in liturgy and many chazzanim were not 
>educated
>enough to know the difference. This is situation is changing much for the
>better now, but a look at many older compositions and performances yields
>the extent of this problem.


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