[B-Greek] Webster's Koine Greek Dictionary

John Wilking jcwilking at yahoo.com
Wed Aug 20 19:16:50 EDT 2008


Randall,

I wasn't confusing but equating them. A bilingual dictionary is an expansion of a mono.  This is the part that Chomsky doesn't have problem with.

To approach Greek/English lexicography from this perspective first concedes that Carl Conrad is absolutely correct in saying that translation  should hold a distant second place to language learning.  I'm inclined to think that it shouldn't even be considered by a professional for at least twenty years.  It takes anthropologists twenty years to sufficiently learn exotic living languages, how much more a dead language.

Anyway, having a monolingual First Century Koine Dictionary in place, we could apply Universal Grammar concepts to lexicography.  The notion of converting a mono to a bi as briefly mentioned above would be my first notion.  I don't like to mention names but William Frawley, editor of the International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, is inclined to think that I'm correct, though I know that that doesn't make it so.  My apologies to Noam and Bill for hauling them into this proposal.

John   


--- On Wed, 8/20/08, Randall Buth <randallbuth at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Randall Buth <randallbuth at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Webster's Koine Greek Dictionary
> To: jcwilking at yahoo.com
> Cc: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Wednesday, August 20, 2008, 4:56 AM
> wilking egrapse
> > The main point is to see a bilingual dictionary as a
> set of translations:
> 
> to repeat: the main point of a "Webster" or
> "OED" is a monolingual dictionary.
> to talk about a bilingual Webster is to confuse the issue
> that was raised.
> 
> If you want to talk about bilingual dictionaries I suggest
> that the
> subject line
> be changed.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Randall Buth, PhD
> www.biblicalulpan.org
> randallbuth at gmail.com
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