Linguistics and opposite conclusions
Mike Sangrey
msangrey at BlueFeltHat.org
Tue Oct 29 11:39:29 EST 2002
On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 05:59, Carl W. Conrad wrote:
> <snip> I would never claim to
> be a Greek scholar--I would reserve such a title for someone who has
> published works deemed authoritative in the field--and I am much more
> inclined to see myself exactly as Iver puts it in his phrase, one "who
> wants to understand Greek better than I do." Long ago on this list I
> expressed a dislike for Jonathan's distinction between "big Greek" and
> "little Greek" on grounds that nobody is so competent in ancient Greek that
> he or she cannot learn new things about it from others. We are all
> students, even if some of us have been studying longer than others.
Perhaps `Seeks' would be better. Short for "Student Greek" or even
"Servant Greek".
Mike Sangrey,
Just a Seeker.
<smile>
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Mike Sangrey
msangrey at BlueFeltHat.org
Landisburg, Pa.
"The first one last wins."
"A net of highly cohesive details reveals the truth."
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