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

Randall Buth randallbuth at gmail.com
Wed Jul 22 09:57:37 EDT 2009


Christophe, XAIRE

Thank you for the kind words on the KOINH pronunciation.

I would like to add an important point for those 'listening':

we, you and I, agree 100% that it is necessary to speak and use a
language if we want to internalize it, to really know it. And we
need to be able to speak with each other with understanding.
Which also implies being able to hear each other's pronunciation
with understanding.

To this we might also want to add a modern Greek to a
discussion. It is something not always done in New Testament
studies. I would hope that in the future, New Testament students
would be able to speak with each other, whatever their background,
and even with modern Greeks who would take time to listen to our
archaic ways. Even their occasional problem with YMEIS HMEIS can
be overcome when speaking face to face.

blessings

Randall

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