[B-Greek] Word Divisions
Alan Bunning
bunning at verizon.net
Thu Apr 19 10:17:08 EDT 2007
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From: frjsilver at optonline.net [mailto:frjsilver at optonline.net]
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2007 9:53 AM
To: Carl W. Conrad
Cc: bunning at verizon.net; b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Word Divisions
Dear Friends --
FWIW, I agree with Carl Conrad and George Somsel.
Not to mention how odd it would look -- and how incomprehensible it would
become -- if we separated all prepositions/proclitics/enclitics from words
in English, whether derived from Greek, Latin, or Anglo-Saxon, etc.:
'back ward'
'meta phor'
'in fusion'
'down fall'
'con found' (hah!)
The rule would not be to separate all, but to separate all unless there is
evidence that the combination leads to a different meaning. In your English
examples, both words would first have to be able stand on there own and they
don't except for possibly "in fusion" and "down fall". In these cases, they
are prepositions on the front of nouns, not verbs, and this is not the
category I struggle with.
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