[B-Greek] Webster's Koine Greek Dictionary

Randall Buth randallbuth at gmail.com
Tue Aug 19 18:42:02 EDT 2008


The title Webster's suggests that it is organized around something non-Greek.
If it were organized around Greek and in Greek then you would need to
make adjustments if translating. that is the nature of good translation.

On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 12:13 AM, John Wilking <jcwilking at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Randall,
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> I'm unclear about a couple things.  The "wouldn't...shouldn't"?  And why couldn't you have nice neat translations?
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> John
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> --- On Sun, 8/17/08, Randall Buth <randallbuth at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> From: Randall Buth <randallbuth at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Webster's Koine Greek Dictionary
>> To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org, "John Wilking" <jcwilking at yahoo.com>
>> Date: Sunday, August 17, 2008, 1:55 PM
>> > From: John Wilking <jcwilking at yahoo.com>
>> > Subject: [B-Greek] Webster's Koine Greek
>> Dictionary
>> >
>> > If we were able to compile a monolingual dictionary, a
>> Koine First Century Webster's, couldn't we convert
>> it into a bilingual one simply by translating or adding
>> translations to certain portions?
>> >
>> > John C. Wilking
>>
>> Your title gives some of your answer. You wouldn't or
>> perhaps shouldn't
>> have a "Webster's" project.
>>
>> Likewise, you probably wouldn't have a neat
>> translation, since the way
>> the Greek
>> words would be self-categorized would likely prove to be
>> different from simple
>> glossing in another language. Translation can always be
>> done, to be sure,
>> but it would be trickier than might be imagined at first.
>>
>> when I work with Hebrew material in Hebrew, whether
>> commentary, lexicon, or
>> grammo-syntactical studies, they are different from what
>> would be done in
>> a non-Hebrew language because of the different assumptions
>> that must be
>> made about the competence of the audience or the choices
>> within the
>> language. Hebrew-Hebrew makes certain assumptions about the
>> audience and that affects the way things are written.
>> I suspect that the same thing would happen in Greek-Greek.
>>
>> On the other hand, you may be interested to know that Greek
>> itself has a
>> (modern) Greek translation of LIddell-Scott.
>> Funny we haven't discussed this on list, or have we?,
>>
>> I don't own it or have it accessible,
>> so I can't say what edition of LS was used or what kind
>> of interesting
>> differences or redundancies may have occurred in the
>> process of production.
>> That might make an interesting article, or may already have
>> been written
>> somewhere, probably in a modern Greek review. I don't
>> even remember the
>> approximate year of the Greek LS, it might be a hundred
>> years old for all I can
>> remember. I've seen it, curiously looked through some
>> pages, and don't
>> remember any specifics.
>>
>>
>> ERRWSQE
>> Randall Buth
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>> Randall Buth, PhD
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>> randallbuth at gmail.com
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