[B-Greek] Erasmian Pronunciation

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad2 at mac.com
Wed Dec 16 05:25:50 EST 2009


Correction: the URL won't work with the final "." It should be:
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k55026175.r=Erasmus.langEN

Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (ret)

 
On Wednesday, December 16, 2009, at 05:18AM, "Carl W. Conrad" <cwconrad2 at mac.com> wrote:
>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-----
>> From: b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org
>> [mailto:b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of James Ernest
>> Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 2:44 PM
>> To: B-Greek
>> 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
>>
>> ...
>>
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>> James D. Ernest, PhD, Editor
>> Baker Academic & Brazos Press
>> jernest at BakerPublishingGroup.com / http://www.BakerPublishingGroup.com
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>Carl W. Conrad
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