[B-Greek] Understanding? Greek?

George F Somsel gfsomsel at yahoo.com
Wed Mar 12 15:27:49 EDT 2008


I'm tempted to quote Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes (but I'll simply paraphrase) that the mind is like a storage room which will only hold so much so it is necessary to throw something out to make room for new knowledge, but I don't agree with that.  Let me simply ask one question.  Do you not occasionally need to use a dictionary for English which I presume is your mother tongue?  Yes, we will probably always need a lexicon, but its necessity should become less frequent with time and experience.
 
george
gfsomsel

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From: Hugh Donohoe Jr. <justusjcmylord at yahoo.com>
To: blist greek <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 10:57:38 AM
Subject: [B-Greek] Understanding? Greek?

So this brings me to my questions. Continuing like I
am, I don't see much improvement happening (in my
knowledge of vocab). By JUST reading, some vocab slips
out of my brain even though I am adding new each day.
So it seems like I would have to either read much more
each day or do an immersion type experience like that
of Dr. Buth to progress. It feels like I have reached
an equilibrium in vocabulary acquisition. After
reading about Disson, maybe I should never expect to
dispense with the lexicon, how depressing! So is it a
matter of ability primarily? By this I mean the
capaciousness of one's memory. Or is there a wall
everyone hits when it comes to reading an ancient
period of a language? How much pie should we think is
in the sky? As my old pastor would say; "any
questions, comments or war stories?"

ex animo

Hugh Donohoe


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