[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.
>
>
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