[B-Greek] Comparison of EIS with PROS

Paul Schmehl pschmehl at sbcglobal.net
Sat Jan 17 12:35:54 EST 2004


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From: "Daniel Riaño" <danielrr at eresmas.net>
To: <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 6:11 AM
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Comparison of EIS with PROS
>
> It is rather clear that they are not synonymous. Sorry if I am
> repeating Robertson, which I don't have at hand now.
>
As I was reading your explanation of the distributions of EIS and PROS, I
couldn't help but think that it comported with my explanation of certain
words just not "sounding right" with other words, even though the meanings
are essentially synonymous.  Then I came to this last statement, and it
completely threw me off.  Perhaps you could expand on this?  I took it from
your explanation of the distributions that the words *are* essentially
synonymous but are used where they are for reasons other than their
"meaning".

IOW, one would use PROS rather than EIS because of the words it refers to,
*not* because of a complete difference in meaning.  Did I completely
misunderstand what you wrote?

Paul Schmehl
pschmehl at sbcglobal.net
http://www.utdallas.edu/~pauls/




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