[B-Greek] PEI, FEI, XEI, KSI, PSI (was pee or pie)

TuNeCedeMalis67 at aol.com TuNeCedeMalis67 at aol.com
Sun Jul 9 15:32:41 EDT 2006


Unless Attic teachers change their pronunciation, I seriously doubt you will 
see Koine teachers abandon Erasmian.

When I was in the process of switching over to modern pronunciation, I joined 
an Attic/Koine audio chat one day and had forgotten enough of the Erasmian 
that I was unable to offer help to another struggling student without going to 
the trouble of selecting a Greek font he had on his computer, and typing in the 
word.

It would be more convenient if all of Europe drove on the same side of the 
road. The trouble to convert everyone is just not worth it, though.

For me, it's just not worth the effort to buck the system. Yeah, there are 
variations in Erasmian, but we can all understand each other pretty well with 
the variations. Selecting between the variations is only an issue for my 
personal drill work, not for communicating.

Modern also makes it harder to memorize accents and breathing marks.

Kat Doe
homemaker



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