[B-Greek] Top Ten Signs that You are Spending Too Much Time Doing Greek

Carl Conrad cwconrad2 at mac.com
Wed Jul 1 07:44:39 EDT 2009


EUGE, FWSFORE MARKE, KAI PAILIN LEGW: EUGE!

Somewhere in this list belongs the hilarious efforts on one Saturday  
afternoon years ago when B-Greekers, spurred on by their now  
illustrious list-owner, endeavored to back-translate Lewis Carroll's  
"Jabberwocky" into ancient Greek.
See: http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/b-greek/1999-September/007471.html

Carl W. Conrad

On Jul 1, 2009, at 7:05 AM, Mark Lightman wrote:

> Top Ten Signs that You are Spending Too Much Time Doing Greek:
>
> 10.  The ring tone on your cell phone is the “Song of Seikilos.”
>
> 9.  You are more excited about them making UBS 5 than Godfather 4.
>
> 8.  While eating waffles with your kids, you say to them  
> λεγωμαι εγω.
> LEGWMAI EGW.
>
> 7.  Your cats are named “Erasmus” and “Buth.”
>
> 6.  When you get a “Dear John” letter, instead of being upset,
> you begin diagramming the sentences.
>
> 5.  You’ve tried to translate “Egg McMuffin” into Koine.
>
> 4.  You wonder if the 7th edition of L.S.J., before Jones replaced
> Drisler, was called the L.S.D.
>
> 3.  Two words: spurious diphthongs.
>
> 2.  Your favorite T.V. program is “That LXX’s Show.”.
>
> And the number one sign that you are spending too much time
> doing Greek:
>
> 1.  When people tell you to stop writing Top Ten lists and
> get a life, you wonder if they mean BIOS or ZWH.
>
> Mark L
>
> Φωσφορος Μαρκος
> FWSFOROS MARKOS
>
>
>
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