[B-Greek] Geetings
Jeffrey T. Requadt
jeffreyrequadt_list at hotmail.com
Wed Oct 25 20:03:07 EDT 2006
I would Google search the B-Greek archives for something like "Greek
keyboard" or "typing Greek". The program I use is called Keyman, which you
can find at
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&item_id=Keyman. SIL
also has several fonts that include a full set of Greek characters
(including some Unicode fonts), which you can find at
http://www.sil.org/computing/catalog/show_software_catalog.asp?by=cat&name=F
ont.
Personally, I'm not sure what you mean by "Romanization" vs. Greek glyphs.
Do you mean that the Greek is transliterated into Roman characters, like
gamma = "g", tau = "t", etc.? If that's the case, I wouldn't personally
recommend that. The idea is to read Greek and become familiar with what the
characters look like. I can understand using a transliteration scheme when
you're first learning how the letters are pronounced, but you'd better be
careful, because there's a lot of debate (especially on this list) about how
Greek vowels should be pronounced when reading Koine. I don't actually know
a lot about that, but there are several people on this list who do.
Regardless of what pronunciation you use (and pronunciation really does
matter to some extent), I would steer clear of trying to think what English
letter would be the Greek letter equivalent, just like you don't want to
always read and try to think what the English equivalent of a Greek word
would be. I think that that would cripple your reading and thinking.
Of course, you may be referring to something totally different by
"Romanization." Could you be a little more specific?
Jeffrey T. Requadt
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From: b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Zach
Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2006 10:47 PM
To: Elizabeth Kline
Cc: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Geetings
On 10/25/06, Elizabeth Kline <kline_dekooning at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> This book is strong on syntax but perhaps a little difficult to
> follow when it comes to the morphology of the verb. However, parsing
> tables for the verb can be aquired at no cost from various sources on
> the web.
Hello Elizabeth,
Thanks for your reply. I noticed this book does not use any sort of
Romanization do you think I should find a text which builds on
Romanization before moving on to the Greek glyphs since I don't have
the best rote memory? When reading Greek characters to oneself is it
ok to mentally sound out the word or should one not rely on any sort
of phonetic association to aid learning and just make a strictly
visual mapping in one's memory? Also my computer is not displaying
Greek fonts. Anyone know how I can setup Greek fonts for reading and
also how can I do Greek character input?
Regards,
Zach
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