[B-Greek] Top Ten Signs that You are Spending Too Much Time Doing Greek
Benjamin Griffiths
jamino at gmail.com
Wed Jul 1 08:41:44 EDT 2009
Absolutely brilliant. Made me laugh so much.I'm sure I could increase the
length of that list. Texting seminary friends in Koine has got to be on
there (they never seem to share the same enthusiasm though!)
Benjamin Griffiths
2009/7/1 Carl Conrad <cwconrad2 at mac.com>
> 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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