[B-Greek] Determining questions in the Greek language without an interrogative particle

Oun Kwon kwonbbl at gmail.com
Thu Dec 10 20:45:54 EST 2009


On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Blue Meeksbay <bluemeeksbay at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> All of these, however, seem to have come to their conclusions from their understanding of the context. So I am back to my original question in my first post on this subject, "Is the context the only way we can determine the answer?"  It seems the answer is, yes, in which case, I guess there will always be a bit of subjectivity involved in such selective decisions.
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> Yours truly,
> B. Harris
> Sometimes, it seems the only way we could be sure, in situations like this, is to be there and be able to hear the tone in the speaker's voice, or to be able to ask the writer what he originally meant. (Just for the record, even though it would be "no skin off my nose"  if it was a question, I still suspect it was a statement.)
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It is the context that determines, I'm sure.

Actually my recent question on Titus 1:12-13 was posted exactly on the
same point. (If I give examples with an English sentence:
    It is true.
    Is it true?
    Isn't it true!
    It is true, isn't it?
etc.

Even if it is in an interrogative form, it would be a rhetorical
question with the affirmative answer implicit.
Jn 16: 31 [Do I feel here Jesus sighing?]
"At last you all have come to believe, don't you!"

Oun Kwon.



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