[B-Greek] 1 Timothy 5:8

lance w seevers lws39 at juno.com
Fri Jan 16 02:29:18 EST 2004


Regarding your comment on biological gender:
I am reading a book on the history of the English language and the author
points to the "natural gender" as a difference and an advantage over
European languages and their tendency to have grammatical gender as part
of their language structures.
Wouldn't it be the usual thing for people to read their own language
structures into other languages as they are learning them? Of course, at
some point in the learning process, if they really want to learn,
students have to stop thinking according to their native language! 
walt seevers

On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 17:39:42 +1100 "Ann Nyland"
<accuratebibles at ozemail.com.au> writes:
> Absolutely, Michael. And we Greeks sometimes forget that many 
> laypersons
> (indeed, whole denominations) out there believe biological gender 
> matches
> grammatical gender in Greek - they see masculine grammatical gender 
> and
> think it must be a man - it must be hard for people who are used 
> only to the
> English language.
> 
> Ann Nyland

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