OUAI = "DAMN"?

Phillip J. Long plong at gbcol.edu
Tue Sep 15 12:59:58 EDT 1998


On the subject of finding modern equivilents to Greek phrases, I was
reading through the JACT Classical Greek course and ran across the
phrase  es koraka, "to the crows," used in a phrase something like "go
to the crows."  The lexicon provided in the textbook gave the gloss
"go to hell."  L&S have "go to the dogs, go and be hanged.'"

This is a case where the euphemistic language would escape the modern
reader completly if it was translated "literally."  Although I would
think that it might shake a person up to be told to "go to the crows."



Phillip J. Long
Asst. Prof. Bible & Greek
Grace Bible College



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