[B-Greek] Ancient Greek-Grammar war?
Barry
nebarry at verizon.net
Sat Feb 25 20:46:59 EST 2006
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From: "Randall Buth" <randallbuth at gmail.com>
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Subject: [B-Greek] Ancient Greek-Grammar war?
> Another perspective. (davar aHer)
> I profoundly agree and strongly disagree with the perspecitve of that
> article. It is very sad that students will not be learning Greek. But
> the culprit is not English. The culprit is Greek teaching itself.
> Notice the oxymoron here. Mulroy complains that students cannot learn
> Greek without knowing English grammar metalanguage (last term mine).
> since when did Plato or Luke need to know English grammar terms in
> order to learn Greek? Did Isaiah or Hillel need English in order to
> learn Hebrew?
> What students need to learn any language is a good, efficient course
> in that language.
I agree with practically everything in this post (including the comments I cut
to save space). A note: when did I really learn formal English grammar? Not
from my English teachers, but from good 'ol Mrs. Aiken, from whom I took Latin
in High School as an elective (and who instilled in me a love for Classics that
carried me through the M.A. before switching to formal theological studies).
And why did I do well in Latin for those two years? The credit has to go to
Mrs. Aiken, who was one of the best teachers that I had before college itself...
N.E. Barry Hofstetter
Fecisti nos ad te et inquietum est cor nostrum, donec requiescat in te...
-- Augustine, Confessions 1:1
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