[B-Greek] "proper" pronunciation?
Anthony Buzzard
anthonybuzzard at mindspring.com
Tue Jan 2 17:54:31 EST 2007
Ted, Yes, indeed. I think of the cockney sound of DIE (more or less
"DOY") and my own non-cockney British english version. Lots of other
examples. I have noted on this list that having taught NT Greek in a
Bible college, with the modern accent, that many learn to read well,
fast. But this is all a matter of taste of course. I was just
delighted to learn, for the first time on this list, that other
institutions have been using the non-Erasmian version too.
Anthony Buzzard
At 05:45 PM 1/2/2007, shoes6 at juno.com wrote:
>This topic has been discussed and rehashed plenty of times. An aspect
>of this debate that doesn't always get mentioned, however, is the fact
>that we probably expect more uniformity than the ancients provided.
>
>That is:
>In our day, people who speak any widespread language (such as English)
>have the "equalizing" influences of television, air travel, highways,
>the internet, movies, etc. People on the opposite side of the world
>can read and hear much of the same English that I hear. Therefore, the
>English language is almost certainly more uniform than it would be
>without these factors.
>***And we still have different dialects!***
>Put together native English speakers from different places and
>different social strata, and they might well have a hard time
>communicating.
>
>If that is true in our day, local idiosyncracies were probably much
>more developed in the pre-modern world.
>
>What, then, is the genuine ancient pronunciation? There were probably
>hundreds of them. Sure, we can trace back some tendencies. But even
>those tendencies are a representation of the world overall, not of any
>individual speaker, not even any one century.
>
>Ted Shoemaker
>
>
>From: Michael Hinton <guyanimal at mac.com>
>Subject: [B-Greek] "proper" pronunciation?
>
>I listened to an mp3 audio seminar by Charles Vanderpool on correct
>pronunciation of koine Greek
>
>http://apostolicbible.com/
>
>His were quite a bit different than what I learned in college NT
>Greek 1 and what I hear theologians speak. For example, his
>pronunciation of the upsilon sound is a long ee, as is the dipthhong
>OI. His premise is that koine Greek correctly pronounced is identical
>to modern day spoken Greek.
>
>Is there a consensus on this? Or is it simply impossible to ascertain?
>
>Thanks,
>
>MichaeL Hinton
>beginning Greek student
>
>
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