[B-Greek] BG standard transliteration: alternative
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at ioa.com
Fri Jan 20 06:49:54 EST 2006
On Jan 19, 2006, at 9:05 PM, Alan Calcutt wrote:
> " . . . PORNEIA, AKAQARSIA, ASELGEIA, EIDWLOLATRIA, FARMAKEIA, ECQRAI,
> EPIS, ZHLOS, QUMOI, ERIQEIAI, DICOSTASIAI, hAIRESEIS, FQONOI, MEQAI,
> KWMOI . . . ". (Forgive me for any errors, as this is my first
> attempt)
For a first attempt this is really quite good. It strikes me as a
help worth calling attention to that Zack Hubert has provided a great
resource for those who tell us that they find it so very difficult to
learn and use the B-Greek transliteration scheme set forth in our FAQ
at http://metalab.unc.edu/bgreek/faq.txt and even displayed in a
simple graphic on the list's home page itself at http://
metalab.unc.edu/bgreek --
here's the resource:
go to
http://zhubert.com/,
fill in and clic "view"k to display the Greek text of the scripture
text you want to cite on B-Greek,
Once you have that text displayed, find beneath it a pop-up box with
"greek" as the default format, click on it and select from the
options listed "bgreek", then click add: a new column displaying the
B-Greek transliteration of the Greek text in question will appear;
you can copy that and paste it into your message to B-Greek.
Of course some might claim that this is as arduous as consulting a
chart of corresponding Greek letters and Roman ASCII equivalents and
only less arduous than memorizing those equivalencies that are not
quite intuitive. BUT it is surely no more difficult than going to the
Tiny-URL site to turn a URL that's three lines long into a short and
manageable URL to insert in e-mail. The point is, if you really mean
for your message to be helpful to other list-members or to elicit
responses that are helpful to you, you need to exercise some effort
to making your message as clear and intelligible and useful to as
many other list-members as possible. Zack Hubert's site has many
excellences that should appeal enough to B-Greekers to make them want
to bookmark it for regular use; this is a bit of lagniappe for those
B-Greekers. I recommend it
Carl W. Conrad
Co-Chair, B-Greek List
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu or cwconrad2 at mac.com
WWW: http://www.ioa.com/~cwconrad/
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