[B-Greek] Greek NT audio--attitude of modern Greeks

Randall Buth randallbuth at gmail.com
Thu Oct 2 17:03:11 EDT 2008


On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 4:39 PM, Vasile Stancu <stancu at mail.dnttm.ro> wrote:
> I see... but cannot say this is very comforting... at least, not to me... I
> would have expected Greeks to be the main teachers for non-Greeks as far as
> Greek language of any age is concerned.
> Vasile

The Greeks were and are,
are the non-Greeks listening?

One of the reasons I decided to go with a KOINH was to be a
compromise that might bring us non-Greeks back into the
Greek sphere of things. It is historically justifiable for
postAlexandrian Koine, 3c BCE and later.
But the debate would still rage over practices with
pre-alexandrian, so-called 'classical' 5c BCE and earlier.

Randall





> -----Original Message-----
> From: Randall Buth [mailto:randallbuth at gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 4:01 AM
> To: Vasile Stancu; greek B-Greek
> Subject: Greek NT audio--attitude of modern Greeks
>
> Vasile egrapse
>>I would be indeed very happy to learn Ancient Greek pronounciation
> the way a Greek would do. Are there any audio samples available?
> How are the young Greek students of today taught the pronounciation
> of Ancient Greek?>
>
> I've only heard Greeks read ancient Greek in modern. While students
> may be told that rponuncation was different in the past, no one seems
> to try to read ancient Greek any differently.
> In addition, a few years ago I was able to enter a high school
> classroom in Patmos where the students were being introduced
> to ancient Greek. It was all modern pronounciation.
>
>
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> randallbuth at gmail.com
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