another Mounce mistake
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Sat Nov 2 16:15:21 EST 2002
Well, the damage seems impossible to control. I hope that Bill Mounce, if
he hears of this splendid thread on B-Greek, will be able to chuckle at it;
if he asks about it, we'll just have to say that it got its subject-header
originally from "another of Mark Wilson's gaffes."
At 8:39 PM +0000 11/2/02, dconklin at tcq.net wrote:
>> What makes it interesting to me and also on-topic for b-greek is that the
>> Greek analogue to Mounce's English example, namely attraction of a
>> relative pronoun to the case of the antecedent, happens with quite some
>> frequency in polished prose. I was floored the first time I saw this
>> construct in Greek because it is considered such poor style or grammar
>> in English.
>
>David Conklin here:
>
>For the benefit of those of us who aren't very well educated could you
>give us some examples (or, did just give you one? ;))>
>
>David
>Conklin
>
>
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