[B-Greek] BH BH, the bleating of an ancient sheep
Mark Lightman
lightmanmark at yahoo.com
Fri Jul 17 19:58:26 EDT 2009
Stephen wrote: <Perhaps the entire enterprise of 'how to properly
pronounce' Koine is pointless. As with English, Chinese
(Mandarin/Cantonese), Russian, Spanish, and many other
languages, there were regional accents. Who can rightly
say which accent is 'the' correct one?>
I agree and frankly I don't understand why so many
list members whom I respect so much can't seem
to apply this tolerance to Erasmianism. A pronunciation,
any pronunciation, is neither right nor wrong, but simply
there, like your life.
Mark L
FWSFOROS MARKOS
--- On Fri, 7/17/09, Stephen Lord <ebyon at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
From: Stephen Lord <ebyon at sbcglobal.net>
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] BH BH, the bleating of an ancient sheep
To: B-Greek at lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Friday, July 17, 2009, 9:03 AM
Perhaps the entire enterprise of 'how to properly pronounce' Koine is pointless. As with English, Chinese (Mandarin/Cantonese), Russian, Spanish, and many other languages, there were regional accents. Who is can rightly say which accent is 'the' correct one?
When I was in Russia more than a decade ago, the locals had been taught a flavor of "British" English. I was with a group from Alabama. For the interpreter, I often had to first repeat Alabaman English in Yankee English before they understood. I was told by the locals that my limited Russian carried an accent that sounded like I was from their Georgia.
Point? You say tomato...
Respectfully,
Stephen C. Lord
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