[B-Greek] words often mistaken for other words

Randall Buth randallbuth at gmail.com
Sat Nov 17 09:58:26 EST 2007


mitch egrapse
> I would like to make a list of words that are
1) most easily mistaken for another word (for
example, EIS and hEIS, or O TI and hOTI)
2) spelled the same or close to another word but are
different words/roots
I want to make a list of words that I can begin
to learn their differences when put side by side. >

You are touching on a learning point that is trickier than it may appear.
Words like these need to be kept separate in people's heads,
in fact, they are kept separately,
and bringing them together runs the risk of dissolving them.

Imagine in English the verbal and nominal reversed reverses in
an overlook,   to overlook something,
to oversee,    an oversight.

these must be learned in individual contexts and can only later be brought
together for self-discovery 'ahh' moments of reflection. If a student tried
to learn those English words together they would surely dissolve and leave
the student forever groping in the dark.

having said that, once the words have been thoroughly learned in context and
are appropriately hard-wired in the brain, they can be looked at toward the
view of further insulation so that they do not 'short-circuit' and
'dissolve' into each other. the words that you mention are common enough to
be learned separately, but the principle is one to remember.
As for O TI and OTI 'whatever' and OTI 'because', one may approach OTI as an
idiomatic use, development, and coinage of O TI//OSTIS. But the contextual
threads are the thing that separates these in cognitive processing,
certainly not the space in some later manuscript traditions.

ERRWSQE
Randall Buth



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