Greek pronunciation?

Steven Lo Vullo slovullo at mac.com
Tue Oct 8 18:48:52 EDT 2002


On Tuesday, October 8, 2002, at 12:59 PM, Brian McCarthy wrote:

> Another question, which I know would be hard to quantify, but how hard 
> is
> it for a modern Greek to read the GNT?  Is it to them (roughly) as
> Shakespeare is to us, or as Chaucer is to us, or as Beowulf is to us?

A few years ago I was browsing Borders bookshop when I spotted a guy 
with an open GNT (Perschbacher's _Refresh Your Greek_). I walked over 
to him and said, "Do you read Greek?" He turned to me and said, "I AM 
Grrreek!" When I got over my embarrassment, I asked him how much he 
could make out. He said he was having trouble but was able to make some 
of it out. I don't know if this is typical, just an experience I had.
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Steven R. Lo Vullo
Madison, WI




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