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“I don’t get your distinction and what are words that “contain yiddish vowels”?
Hebrew vowels (nekudos) are ַַָאָאַאֶאֵאִאׁ (ignore the
The corresponding yiddish vowels are א א ע יי י ו
The word זמן doesnt contain a yiddish vowel nor does שבת. Thus in yiddish they are written the same way,
The hebrew word נער does contain a yiddish vowel, the ע which of course makes an ־ֶ sound. thus in yidish the word נער is prounced Ner.
“The suffix thing shown that sometimes the vowels are left out when it doesn’t add. There are better examples no doubt.”
weve already provided examples like זמן שבת. In the case of נער a vowel isnt being left out, a “wrong” one is put in.
“I am making up rules based on experience not formal knowledge of grammar, but I suspect that your “yiddish vowels” rule is similarly made up. True?”
Im not sure which rule you refer to. Strictly speaking the correct spelling is נאר. I agree languages evolve and today perhaps נער is correct as well.
However your first line “So נאר is “nohr” which means only, whereas נער in the first version is clearly the Arameic word (for fool, the line means “on’t be fool”) and so would be written with an ayin.” wasnt quite right