[B-Greek] B-Greek Year End Awards

Bert de Haan dehaanaf at gmail.com
Wed Dec 23 19:14:21 EST 2009


> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Mark Lightman <lightmanmark at yahoo.com>
> To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:31:26 -0800 (PST)
> Subject: [B-Greek] B-Greek Year End Awards
> B-Greek Year End Awards:
>
 (snip)
> BEST TONGUE-IN-CHEEK TERM FOR A CRITIC
> OF JOSEPH THAYER’S GREEK-ENGLISH LEXICON
> OF THE NEW TESTAMENT: Carl Conrad “Nay-Thayer.”

That one was good.  Sometimes I think he must have too much time on
his hands but that can't be true considering the many worthwhile
contributions come from his "pen."  Another one of his I enjoyed was:
"...ancient grammarians felt no repulsion (or revulsion) against
attraction."

(snip)
> THE FACTOR THAT MAKES THE TRANSITION
> FROM NEW TESTAMENT TO HOMERIC GREEK
> THE MOST DIFFICULT, AND IT”S NOT WHAT YOU
> THINK, IT’S NOT ALL THE EXTRA FORMS YOU
> HAVE TO LEARN, OR THE DUAL, OR THE MASSIVE
> VOCABULARLY, OR ELISION:  The fact that in the NT
> prepositions essentially go with nouns, whereas in Homer,
> prepositions essentially go with verbs.

Here I have to disagree.  For me it's the massive vocabulary.

 (snip)
> BEST GRAMMATICAL TERM: Daniel Wallace,
> “Aporetic Genitive.”

Point of order chairman:  This term was coined prior to 2009.  Still a
week before the year is over so maybe this award can be retracted and
awarded to someone else?
>
> Mark L
> Φωσφορος
>
> FWSFOROS MARKOS
>

Bert de Haan.



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