[B-Greek] Greek text with lexicon

John Barach johnbarach at shaw.ca
Wed Dec 2 19:34:55 EST 2009


In order to assist you Mark, I need to know the following:
1. Does the Greek text of a particular chapter load up and display fast 
enough?
2. Does the "slow" problem occur when you click on a word and you have 
to wait for the lexicon to appear?
If it is #1 then I can't improve on the speed.
If it is #2, I could shorten the lexicon page. For instance, when you 
hit ANQRWPOV, the computer loads the list of every word that begins with 
the letter A.
Of course that takes some time. I think if I were to chop up each letter 
page so that (in this instance) all the words that begin with AN would 
be loaded, it might load the page more quickly.
I am assuming that the reason it is slow for you is only partially due 
to your computer, but more to the way your system accesses the web.
If you are using dial-up, it will be slow. Even dedicated phone line 
will be slower than cable.
Let me know if you think my suggestion might work in your favor.
Cheers,
John

Mark Lightman wrote:
> Hi John,
>  
> I appreciate your effort, but on my computer anyway, your
> tool is just not fast enough.  I have found Perseus also to be
> too slow to be of much value.  I assume that software is
> available which makes looking up words instantaneous, but
> I have never found a free site that does this.
>  
> A printed Reader's Editions allows your eye to jump down
> and back to the text in a fraction of a second.  Any
> electronic tool would have to be faster than that to be
> worth it.
>  
> Also, this may just be me, but I think intermediate learners
> don't really need the parsing info.  It seems to me that
> one masters the paradigms much sooner than the
> vocabulary needed to read quickly. All the parsing
> info does is slow you down (this is one reason
> I prefer Zondervan to UBS in a Reader's Edition.)
>  
> But again, thanks for your efforts.  Others may
> well find it more useful.  
>
> Mark L
>
>
> FWSFOROS MARKOS
>
> --- On *Sat, 11/28/09, John Barach /<johnbarach at shaw.ca>/* wrote:
>
>
>     From: John Barach <johnbarach at shaw.ca>
>     Subject: [B-Greek] Greek text with lexicon
>     To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
>     Date: Saturday, November 28, 2009, 8:19 PM
>
>     I have taught Greek for over 15 years and in my experience Greek
>     students would like to read the NT, but they are deficient in
>     vocabulary.
>     No sooner do they begin, than they are confronted with a word that
>     was
>     not learned in their grammar.
>     They look it up in the analytical lexicon, read two more short
>     words and
>     are back to the lexicon.
>     For that reason, I have developed the following Greek NT text with
>     links
>     for each word to a lexicon.
>     I think it has an advantage over an interlinear approach because it
>     encourages learning new words by remembering what had been "clicked"
>     previously.
>     Would you do me a favor by looking at the site and giving me your
>     input?
>     This link is to the main index.
>     http://www.motorera.com/bible/greek/nt.html
>
>     Cheers,
>     John Barach
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