[B-Greek] Pronouncing PILATOS

Brent Hudson brent at riveroflifembchurch.com
Thu Aug 12 12:58:22 EDT 2004


No you shouldn't consider any words 'special' in the Erasmian system.
Erasmian is an artificial method of pronouncing Greek.  It's top (only?)
benefit is by making phonetic distinctions between all Greek letters there
is an easy movement between sound and writing (and vice versa).  If this
sole benefit is lost, it would be hard to defend using the Erasmian system
at all.  

Brent

P.S. check out the article by Chrys Caragounis on pronunciation (check the
b-greek archives for a link).  
 

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Mitchell, John W
Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 1:36 PM
To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: RE: [B-Greek] Pronouncing PILATOS

I personally would prefer consistency over historical pronunciations.
However, I don't want other people to give me funny looks when I pronounce
words.  I have encountered several other words that Mounce pronounces
differently than I would have expected.  Thus far I've been ignoring his
pronunciation and saying the word how I think it should sound.  But should I
just suck it up and admit that these words are "special"?

John Mitchell

-----Original Message-----
From: George F. Somsel [mailto:gfsomsel at juno.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 11:08 AM
To: jschwandt at nsa.edu
Cc: Mitchell, John W; b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Pronouncing PILATOS

On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 08:22:42 -0700 "John Schwandt" <jschwandt at nsa.edu>
writes:
> George,
> 
> It would be helpful to me if you mentioned your reason or method for 
> your pronunciation decision.  There are variations of the Erasmian 
> pronunciation system (Machen, Smyth) that choose the historical 
> pronunciation for omicron (closer to a long o as in "open" rather than

> ah as in "toss").
> Allen and
> Mounce recommend the "ah" sound.  Regarding John's question, it 
> appears that the author of the CD is making an exception to the Mounce

> system for familiar words or names.
> 
> Blessings,
> John Schwandt
> 
> > -----Original Message-----

My reason for pronouncing it in this fashion is, in the words of Tevya in
_Fidler on the Roof_ "TRADITION" -- namely, mine.  I have always, correctly
or incorrectly, attempted to distinguish between the omega and omicron as
well as the epsilon, iota, and eta.  Also, the "o" in "toss"
is more like "aw" in "thaw" to distinguish it from "ah" as in "father." 
As I said, it's just an attempt to distinguish as well as to be consistent.

george
gfsomsel

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