[B-Greek] Greetings from Athens

Randall Buth randallbuth at gmail.com
Sat Dec 31 08:07:23 EST 2005


EUTUXISMENO TO NEO ETOS
may the new year be fortunate

Saw the notes on Greek pronunciation--
needless to say, Erasmian is a non-starter here in Athens.
When I speak Koine people follow though it takes me a few minutes to
drop into the 6-vowel Koine with separate HTA. (EI=I=H,  AI=E,  A, 
W=O,  OU,  OI=U)

I've been reading Francois Gouin's book from 1880. He had quite a
language learning experience and concluded that all languages should
be learned through oral methodologies. If a person wants to go all the
way to thinking in the language--
then choose a pronunciation that you can live with. For Koine: either
Koine or modern, for ancient epic: ancient Allen-Daitz can be fun. I
can't really find a natural niche for Erasmian.

ERRWSQE
RAndall
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Randall Buth, PhD
www.biblicalulpan.org
ybitan at mscc.huji.ac.il
randallbuth at gmail.com


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