Grammatical categories and Luke 6:12b

Paul Schmehl p.l.schmehl at worldnet.att.net
Wed Jul 25 23:32:21 EDT 2001


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Ghilardi" <qodeshlayhvh at juno.com>
To: "Biblical Greek" <b-greek at franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Cc: <b-greek at franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 9:52 PM
Subject: [b-greek] Re: Grammatical categories and Luke 6:12b


> Dear B-greekers,
> 
> On Tue, 24 Jul 2001 15:56:45 -0400 Jonathan Robie writes:
> > Here's a traditional example from Chomsky:
> > 
> > Time flies like an arrow.
> > Fruit flies like a banana.

> > 
> > The native speaker grasps the meaning, and knows that "flies" works 
> > differently in the two sentences, but does not know why. The native 
> > speaker of NT Greek could probably grasp the various meanings of the 
> > Genitive, without being able to state them or the rules for >
> differentiating them.
> 
> [Ghilardi]
> 
> The first sentence of course means that those sorts of flies which feed
> on time also favor arrows because, like time, they are swift. The second
> one means this: All fruits navigate the air in pretty much the same way.
> So naturally fruit in general will navigate the air in much the same way
> as any particular fruit, say a banana.
> 
> Did I get it right?    ;-)

No, but it certainly sounded scholarly. :-)





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