Pronunciation, was Re: Did Paul Speak Greek with a Turkish Accent?

George Blaisdell maqhth at hotmail.com
Sun Mar 21 22:25:46 EST 1999




John ~

Thank you for your wonderfully new [to me] perspective
on the relationship between modern and koine Greek.

We had a couple of Athenian students in my Greek 101                
class some 25 years ago, and for the first couple of              weeks 
they cruised while we struggled with the alphabet            etc.  But 
as I am recalling, once the rest of the class           caught up on 
mundane looking at the Greek, the two Athenians
struggled just the same as the rest of us to learn the             
forms, and by their own words they said the Attic was              very 
much a foreign language to them.

So your assertion that Greeks with 'some' [and not a lot]            of 
education understand the GNT fairly readily came as a         surprise 
to me.
                                                                     Now 
my question is:  How much is 'some' education?

Thanks again...

George



George Blaisdell
Roslyn, WA

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