[B-Greek] Dr. Buth's statement on 'fluency'
Mitch Larramore
mitchlarramore at yahoo.com
Thu Mar 29 20:22:02 EDT 2007
Regarding this statement, in my opinion, a brilliant
one at that, by Dr. Buth:
"Fluency is best approached before grammar if one does
not want everything to be run almost permanantly
through an analytical processing "monitor" by the
students and teachers."
That is me to a T!
I find this statement to correspond exactly to me, and
why I feel so inept in reading Greek. Thank you for
this! Here is my question for Dr. Buth or other
linguists, using Mark 9.15 as an example:
PAS hO OCLOS IDONTES AUTON EXEQAMBHQHSAN...
How should I read this? Here is what holds me up.
I read it something like this:
WHEN all the crowd saw him, they were amazed...
BECAUSE all the crowd saw him, they were amazed...
ALTHOUGH all the crowd saw him, they were amazed...
SINCE all the crowd saw him, they were amazed...
WHILE all the crowd saw him, they were amazed...
AS A RESULT OF all the crowd having seen him, they
were amazed...
To attain fluency (in reading), do I just go with the
first one(when/because/although/since/while/etc) that
SEEMS to fit? I think my tendency is to try to 'get it
right' while I'm reading. I can't seem to read without
second guessing myself with almost every participle I
encounter. What do linguists recommend for students
like me that feel like I have to be SURE I am
understanding this participle before I go on to the
next word/phrase/clause?
Mitch Larramore
Sugar Land, Texas
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