[B-Greek] PUSHING and PULLING

Mark Lightman lightmanmark at yahoo.com
Thu Aug 27 13:47:17 EDT 2009


I failed the test.  I knew both words, but could not 
actively recall them in time, let alone put them in
the correct form.  Which proves your point.
 
I particularly like the idea of using ωθεω WQEW thus.
The word only occurs a few times in the NT, always in
compounds, but I remember very well that it gave me
all sorts of problems.  Now I am seeing it in Homer.
It would be neat to encounter the word in reading
only after you have used it a lot.  All of which is to say
that these sorts of things are good.  Keep it up. 
 
ερρωσο, φιλε. 



Mark L


FWSFOROS MARKOS

--- On Thu, 8/27/09, Randall Buth <randallbuth at gmail.com> wrote:


From: Randall Buth <randallbuth at gmail.com>
Subject: [B-Greek] PUSHING and PULLING
To: "B Greek" <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Date: Thursday, August 27, 2009, 9:06 AM


One of the challenges of working on internalizing Greek is finding simple
situations that call for decisions on language choices.

What signs would you put up on a door in Greek where one would say
'push'  and 'pull'
in English?
You have thirty seconds for the quiz. (a joke)
If a person was learning any modern language they would probably learn
'push' and 'pull' within the first couple of weeks of being in a situation
where the language was spoken. How many Koine students can relate
to this in the language?

[[Background: with the 'Gospels in the Galilee' workshop coming up this
31March to 11April I need to be preparing materials and making decisions.
It can be fun. For example, at QibbutzTzuba we have used
ANOIKSON and KLEISON for telling someone to open or shut a door.
But the Galilee will be different (besides going from a 4 hour/day class
to a 12-hour/day workshop) ]]

So what about a nice glass push-pull door looking out over the sea?
One must decide on the best word choice and then, of course, one needs
to get the aspect right, which might mean a special form.

If you chose WQEI~N for 'to be pushing' and 'E'LKEIN' for 'to be pulling', then
we are on the same page.
And like so many of the common words
that any two or three year old would learn,
we need to say:

ὤσον      ἕλκυσον
WSON    ELKYSON
So now we can get into the breakfast room and do all the OQEIN-ing and
ELKEIN-ing we want.
And it's so much fun to demonstrate WSON
and ELKYSON
so that everyone immediately understands.
EILKYSAS THN QYRAN? KAGW WSA.

ERRWSQE
IWANHS

-- 
Randall Buth, PhD
www.biblicalulpan.org
randallbuth at gmail.com
Biblical Language Center
Learn Easily - Progress Further - Remember for Life
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