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in reply to Do you smoke tobacco?

I can't even stand to be downwind at fifty yards from a smoker (and I don't mean just when they're actively smoking).

"In adjectives, with the addition of inflectional endings, a changeable long vowel (Qamets or Tsere) in an open, propretonic syllable will reduce to Vocal Shewa. This type of change occurs when the open, pretonic syllable of the masculine singular adjective becomes propretonic with the addition of inflectional endings."  — Pratico & Van Pelt, BBHG, p68