[B-Greek] Iterative, Customary, Gnomic, Conative, etc.
John Sanders
jfs at jfsanders.com
Tue Apr 3 20:43:56 EDT 2007
I do not know, terrible, though.
John
>From: "Terry and Gail Cook" <cookie99 at fuse.net>
>To: "Arthur King" <amgking at sbcglobal.net>,"John Sanders"
><jfs at jfsanders.com>
>CC: <B-Greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
>Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Iterative, Customary, Gnomic, Conative, etc.
>Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 16:14:43 -0400
>
>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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