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Re: Discourse Features of New Testament Greek

Posted: January 20th, 2014, 2:24 pm
by RandallButh
Sometimes it helps to look in a mirror.

Sometimes it helps to look at a 7-yr old kid and say,
"This is a substantive, you're going to learn English."

Re: Discourse Features of New Testament Greek

Posted: January 20th, 2014, 4:25 pm
by Wes Wood
I hope you understand that I was saying that your definitions were extremely helpful. It was a sincere compliment.

Re: Discourse Features of New Testament Greek

Posted: January 20th, 2014, 4:42 pm
by RandallButh
thank you, Wes. I did take your comment as a compliment.
My comment was directed to the discussion on "substantive".

Re: Discourse Features of New Testament Greek

Posted: January 20th, 2014, 4:53 pm
by Wes Wood
I am so glad. I have a tendency to convey the opposite of what I mean. In this case, I was afraid this was one of those instances.

Re: Discourse Features of New Testament Greek

Posted: January 21st, 2014, 11:37 am
by Barry Hofstetter
RandallButh wrote:Sometimes it helps to look in a mirror.

Sometimes it helps to look at a 7-yr old kid and say,
"This is a substantive, you're going to learn English."
Randall, the original post primarily concerned discourse issues, but secondarily there was a question about τοιουτος and when we may know that it's a pronoun. Since you ably answered the discourse part of the question, I addressed the latter, which in turn led to another response and comment. I fail to see why this would be a problem? It answered the questions, and didn't, in my opinion, detract from the main issue raised. If you have difficulty like this again in another thread, please take it up off forum with a moderator.