[B-Greek] Iterative, Customary, Gnomic, Conative, etc.
Terry and Gail Cook
cookie99 at fuse.net
Tue Apr 3 16:14:43 EDT 2007
The website mentioned below has "worked" for quite awhile. Today, I received
the dreaded "HTTP 403" warning "the website declined to show this webpage."
Any ideas?
Terry Cook
sDg
----- Original Message -----
From: "Arthur King" <amgking at sbcglobal.net>
To: "John Sanders" <jfs at jfsanders.com>
Cc: <B-Greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 2:15 PM
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Iterative, Customary, Gnomic, Conative, etc.
>
> On Mar 28, 2007, at 1:33 AM, John Sanders wrote:
>
> ". . . I do not believe there is any positive correlation between the
> skill of "talking
> about a language" with the skill of "talking the language".
>
> "In other words, I think you can sit down and read the GNT in Greek
> without
> knowing any of this linguistic theory.
>
> ". . . do you want to learn to talk about the Greek, or do you want
> to "talk
> the Greek".
>
>
> So says Funk in the eye-opening preface (which deserves to be read
> carefully and in full) to his A Beginning-Intermediate Grammar of
> Hellenistic Greek, an online version of which is available at
> http://www.nauman.org/funk-bighg/preface.html
> ". . . It is the language itself and not a grammar about that
> language that the student who wishes to learn to read Greek needs to
> confront. For that reason, the grammar itself is suppressed wherever
> possible. And, if modern linguistics is correct in its fundamental
> affirmations, the one needful thing in learning a new language is
> familiarity with its grammatical structure. Such familiarity need not
> be explicit; the learner needs to "know" the structure and structure
> signals only in the sense that he is able, immediately and without
> deliberation, to respond to them.". . . traditional grammar might
> be something apart from the ability to read Greek, in fact, might be
> an impediment to such ability."
>
> Arthur King
>
> Clinton, CT
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