[B-Greek] B-Greek pronunciation

Eric Weiss papaweiss1 at yahoo.com
Fri Dec 30 20:49:52 EST 2005


> You'd think we'd care since Greek was and is an oral 
> language where so much about the language depends on 
> euphony.  The language is actually a lot easier to learn 
> in a real accent because then you can hear why things 
> change, you don't need little charts to figure that out. 
> Dr. Buth has done the footwork for us to see how the 
> language actually sounded at the time, which is very 
> very close to how it sounds at the dinner-table today.

Yep, Randall's the man. I use either his pronunciation or 
Modern Greek pretty much all the time now (except when I'm 
teaching class, since most of my students use the Erasmian 
of the textbook). In my class, though, one lady has adopted 
the Modern Greek pronunciation (and uses the Zodhiates 
tapes) and one man (who bought the Zodhiates CDs) uses the 
Modern Greek pronunciation, too - but he's a (non-Greek) 
member of a large Greek Orthodox Church, where, strangely, 
they don't even teach a class in Koine/NT/Byzantine Greek, 
even though half or more of the Divine Liturgy, as well as 
the NT readings, are read in the original language (which 
is why he wants to say it the same way the priests and 
choir and readers say it).

  

Eric S. Weiss


		
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