[B-Greek] Absurdity of Koine Greek accents (was "Allegory about learning Koine Greek")

George F Somsel gfsomsel at yahoo.com
Sun Jul 19 16:19:30 EDT 2009


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 george
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From: Carl Conrad <cwconrad2 at mac.com>
To: Mark Lightman <lightmanmark at yahoo.com>
Cc: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org; bendersb at earthlink.net
Sent: Sunday, July 19, 2009 12:40:20 PM
Subject: [B-Greek] Absurdity of Koine Greek accents (was "Allegory about learning Koine Greek")


So why are we saddled with this polytonic accentual system? Tertullian  
was talking about his faith, but the reason he gave is the only one we  
can give for our persistence in learning and teaching and writing  
these accents on our transcripts of Koine Greek texts: QUIA ABSURDUM  
EST -- because it makes no sense at all. Look at the papyri and the  
Greek texts there: you won't find any accents at all.

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



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