[B-Greek] Lining Out a Greek Text

Oun Kwon kwonbbl at gmail.com
Fri Jun 29 15:04:49 EDT 2007


On 5/25/07, Randall Buth <randallbuth at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Lining Out a Greek Text
> >
> > Oops, I fogot that our list software strips attachments.
> >
> > I posted the attachment here:
> >
> > http://ibiblio.org/koine/greek/liningout/liningout.html
> >
> > Jonathan
> >
>
> shalom Yonatan,
>
> Your project is sound and I appreciate what you are doing. You might be
> encouraged to know that I do something similar whenever I record material.

> (As soon as I send this off I need to record some  Epiktetou paragraphs
> about visiting bathhouses, BALANEIA in Greek. We have a nicely preserved
> BALANEION in BetShean [SKUQOPOLIS]. The first thing I did was 'clause'
> these out into short sense units on different lines.)
>
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> Radall Buth

When I read this message, I wonder the link Jonathan gave, is identical with
his link
given on Jun 13, 2007 Re: [B-Greek] Learning Greek

http://ibiblio.org/koine/greek/phrasing/phrasing-greek-text.html.

Same under different name?

[I tried to send a reply to him off list, but his mail system declined to
receive it.]

Anyway, this is summary of what I said:

A 'phrase' IS the very basic unit of understanding any language.

With this in mind, I have the entire N.T. text put into line-paragraph
format
for easy reading andunderstanding. (GNT as well as English,
plus GNT with unmentionable'  interlinear gloss).
It took about 6 months to have it all copied, typed, and edited
during depression in long wintry days and nights a few years back.

Each line consists of one (arbitrary) unit of sense;
consisting of one or several phrases (again of arbitrary length).

[Someone on our list found that it was rather difficult
to read the text in this format. Apparently he likes the text in right
margin justified as in new paper column style with line ending even in
the middle of phrase, worse in the middle of a word which has to split
by hyphenation.]

Of course, when one is proficient, all this may not be necessary.
But for the beginners or for those the text is not familiar,
I believe this formatting line as 'sense-line' be very helpful,
especially for reading aloud and for my target audience (of ESL).
This is also the way I try to put when quoting the text on e-mail message.

Oun



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