[B-Greek] Greek NT audio--attitude of modern Greeks
Dr. Don Wilkins
drdwilkins at verizon.net
Thu Oct 2 17:50:22 EDT 2008
One would certainly think so. However, I recollect that years ago the
Univ. of Athens focused on modern Greek lit, not ancient. And one of
my favorite memories (for its oddity) was having an ethnic Greek
student who had come to the states from Greece to learn ancient
Greek, because it wasn't taught in his homeland. I would hope that
the situation has since changed, but don't know.
Incidentally, Dr. Buth and I carried on correspondence about his
"Living Koine" off-list, because I was skeptical of it. In
researching the PHI CD I found considerable evidence of unpredictable
spelling variations that substantiated his view. On the other hand,
this evidence also included certain vowel substitutions and other
factors that contradicted trends he cited as well-established,
suggesting that the situation was very complex, seemingly defying
efforts to thoroughly standardize pronunciation. So good news/bad
news, IMO. I hope I am fair in concluding that his system is a
generalization of the actual Koine, like a mathematical average that
may not be the specific situation in any one time and locale. But as
such, it is certainly closer to the real thing than either Erasmian
or modern Greek pronunciation. Or in other words, he has made a
commendable effort to nail jello to a tree.
Don Wilkins
On Oct 2, 2008, at 6:39 AM, Vasile Stancu 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
>
> -----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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