[B-Greek] BG standard transliteration: alternative (corr.)

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at ioa.com
Fri Jan 20 07:09:02 EST 2006


On Jan 20, 2006, at 6:49 AM, Carl W. Conrad wrote:

> 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

I really don't think it will require an expert in textual criticism  
to figure out what happened on the line above, but for those who  
might be "text-critical challenged" I'll note that what I meant to  
write was:

'fill in and click "vieew" 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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