[B-Greek] Greek trivia: all the letters...

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Tue May 6 19:52:59 EDT 2003


Clever! Yes, actually, it's a gnomic aorist, best translated into English
as a present tense. The sentence works fine if it's "The quick brown fox
jumps over the lazy dog." That includes all the Roman letters.


THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER THE LAZY DOG.

When I put that into Greek characters I get (transliterated):

THE QUICK BROWN FOX .UMPS O.ER THE LAZY DOG. All the Greek letters are
present here, while J and V are 25th and 26th letters.


At 8:36 PM -0400 5/6/03, James Bowick wrote:
>Mark, I believe you are confusing Aktionstart and Aspect in this
>translation.  I believe that if you reconsider the use of the Aorist, and
>translate the verb using the present tense in English - "jumps" - you will
>find the difficulty is removed.
>
>James Bowick
>
>
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>
>"The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog ..."
>
>Pat, can I buy an "s"?  :o P
>
>Mark Wilson
>
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