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Politics : Islam, The Message
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To: Zeev Hed who wrote (236)12/2/2001 5:19:13 AM
From: DukeCrow  Read Replies (2) of 758
 
Zeev,

That PM you quoted is untrue. It seems to say that diacritical marks are the dots which go above or below the Arabic letters.

<< The English word "girl" in Arabic is "bent". The Arabic word "bent" is composed of three letters which are "Ba", "non", and "Ta". When these three letters are written connected to each other without the diacritical points they will appear quite identical. They will look like three adjacent crescents facing upwards. The difference between them is nothing. Only the diacritical points can differentiate between them. >>

Untrue. Diacritical marks add vowel sounds to the consonants. They do not alter the consonant from one to another.

The entire PM fails to even touch upon the oral traditions of the Arabs and the followers of the Prophet Muhammed (pbuh). Since many people had memorized the Quranic verses and could recite them fluently, it was relatively simple to add the diacriticals by verifying pronunciation between many different and geographically distant followers of Islam.
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