[B-Greek] Greek NT audio briefly
Randall Buth
randallbuth at gmail.com
Sat Oct 4 06:55:19 EDT 2008
Jayawardena egrapse
>(c) the Erasmian system-- ...--is the best option for them. I think that the advantages of using Erasmian in their case would far outweigh any advantages of using the assumed historical pronunciation or the modern pronunciation. Would RB agree?
RB weighs the whole picture differently.
You are free to use any Erasmian system you
want to. But you can't expect Greeks to embrace it or approve.
And you may not even be happy with yourself whenever you
arrive to being able to rapidly communciate in the language.
As mentioned, a pronunciation system is more than a
system for spelling words correctly that one has never seen.
Take Shakespearean English. One would not recommend using
pseudo-Chaucer for Shakespeare, even if it helped spelling words
one has never read. Either use modern or Shakespearean, but
not pseudo-Chaucer. A sense of reality in a language system is
important, as you raised. The journey to fluency is too long to have
determination undercut by trying to create something historically
out of sync with everything. (e.g. first century people joined EI
with I. Erasmians tend to join EI with H, Restored Attic
differentiates.)
For "reading" fluency, psycholinguistic studies show that there is a
sound component in the brain even in silent reading. this has been
demonstrated for Chinese pictograph. What this means, is that if
someone wants to truly read fluently, they need to be able to have
a basic spoken fluency. Having a spoken, fluent core of a language
in order to enhance high level reading skills.
ERRWSO
Randall
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