[B-Greek] Erasmian Pronunciation
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad2 at mac.com
Wed Dec 16 05:18:25 EST 2009
CWC note: The following message from Scott Kennedy (whose e-address I can't even recover from the original message) may have been sent to the wrong address for posting and so ending up in "B-Greek Bounces." I think it was intended for the list and so have retrieved it to post to the list.
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For those of you with knowledge of Latin in a quest to learn more about Erasmus's pronunciation system, why not read the original text? Gallica has the original text online at http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k52719t.r=.langEN.
Best,
Scott Kennedy
> From: stancu at mail.dnttm.ro
> To: JErnest at BakerPublishingGroup.com; B-Greek at lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:41:17 +0200
> Subject: Re: [B-Greek] "Erasmian?" really? WAS: Another Audio Greek New Testament, free on the Internet
>
> Did Erasmus treat the accentuation system in his famous work? My
> understanding is that he dealt exclusively with the way certain letters were
> to be pronounced.
>
> As for accents, there are some (myself included) who believe that "the
> position of ancient Greek accent is largely the same as that of modern
> Greek" (Probert P., Ancient Greek Accentuation, Oxford University Press,
> 2006, p. 26) and that "the Alexandrian system of accentuation is real" (p.
> 27). Why then go for "the third option", or even for a second one? I believe
> the effort involved in learning ancient Greek is the same, whether one
> complies with the system demonstrated intrinsically by the accentuation
> system, or not - the other difficulties of the language are comparatively
> much greater. In a Spanish class, would you have any reason to pronounce,
> for instance, "despértar" instead of "despertár", or "caloriféro" instead of
> "calorífero"? Why not the same with Ancient Greek, since in both languages
> graphic accents are available?
>
> Vasile Stancu
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of James Ernest
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> Subject: [B-Greek] "Erasmian?" really? WAS: Another Audio Greek New
> Testament, free on the Internet
>
> The third option, evidently, is not to have a system at all--i.e., ignore
> the accents entirely and emphasize syllables randomly
>
> ...
>
> ------------------------------
> James D. Ernest, PhD, Editor
> Baker Academic & Brazos Press
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Carl W. Conrad
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