[B-Greek] Any Greek grammars use non-Erasmusan Pronunciation scheme?
Bert de Haan
dehaanaf at gmail.com
Thu Apr 2 20:07:41 EDT 2009
Kenneth Litwak wrote
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> I had heard long ago that the pronunciation that Erasmus gave for Greek letters might have been based upon a joke played on him. Now that I've read Caragounis on this topic, that seems even more certain......
I have no trouble accepting that the "Erasmian" pronunciation is not
accurate for the pronunciation of Greek of any era but I do have
trouble believing that a scholar of his caliber would devise this
pronunciation scheme as a result of a practical joke. I think it much
more likely he tried to reconstruct ancient Greek pronunciation based
on study, but failed. That makes him a scholar who came to a wrong
conclusion, not a gullible ditz.
Bert de Haan
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