Farkel,
By your post you have demonstrated that it is possible to present information in a longer post than a couple of lines. It is an easy read. A breeze from beginning to end. Like a breeze that twirls dust devils on a dry driveway, let me add to your comments.
After reading your post I did a search on vowels and consonants in ancient Hebrew and also the use of vowels and consonants in music. I find that some of the consonants in Hebrew were pronounced as vowels. In my opinion, Rutherford chose the pronunciation of Jay Ho Vah because it is hard, mean and merciless, somewhat like HO Chee Min, something definite, something you can poke in someones eye.
You state that: So they invented some vowels and slapped them between the consonants in the TetraGrammaPhone.
I am maintaining that it was the opposite, they took a watery, nebulous sounding name and added hard spit-like spear-like consonants.
In a thread from 2003, I posted:
http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/10/62692/958185/post.ashx#958185
belbabAncient Hebrew had no vowels in their alphabet. Only consonants. Most consonants are hard, pronounced with the lips or tip of the tongue. The ability to identify vowel sounds with letters of the alphabet had not yet been discerned.
My theory is that the name of Big J, was all vowels. That is something like eee oh aaah.
In English we have similar expressions an words, for example the word awe, the exclamation 0h, as in Oh my God!, Another example is the old cowboy yell, Yeeeeee Haaah.
So what the Big Guy was telling Moses was my name is not in your vocabulary.
It is something like what Lao Tsu said,
The WAY is forever nameless,
Though the uncarved block is small
No one in the world dare claim its allegiance
Should lords and princes be able to hold fast to it
The myriad creatures will submit to of their own accord,
Heaven and earth will unite and sweet dew will fall,
And the people will be equitable, though no one decrees
Only when it is cut are there names,
As soon as there are names
One ought to know that it is time to stop,
Knowing when to stop one can be free from danger
The WAY is to the world s the River and the Sea are to rivulets and streams.