[B-Greek] best general purpose lexicon?

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Sun Nov 29 01:05:32 EST 2009


George,
 
Sure you can read it in a doctor's office - on your Palm Pilot.  But I  
won't read it while my wife is trying to talk to me, but it sure is neat when  
she's shopping and I am in the car waiting for her.  
 
Rob
 
 
In a message dated 11/28/2009 1:27:02 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
gfsomsel at yahoo.com writes:

Of  course, you can't readily read your electronic texts in the doctor's  
waiting room or while waiting for your wife to finish her conversation.   
george
gfsomsel 


… search for truth, hear truth,  
learn truth, love truth, speak the truth, hold the truth, 
defend the  truth till death.


- Jan Hus
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From: Mark Lightman  <lightmanmark at yahoo.com>
To: b-Greek  <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>; Mike Noel <mike at vnoel.com>; 
George F  Somsel <gfsomsel at yahoo.com>
Sent: Sat, November 28, 2009 2:18:49  PM
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] best general purpose lexicon?


That's  actually a serious point.  Keep in mind that everything I say  about
resources applies to books.  I'm not yet in to electronic  texts.  But I've 
often
said that as technology improves, new resources  that we cannot even
imagine yet will change the way we learn Greek.   For the better, in my
opinion. 

Mark L


FWSFOROS  MARKOS

--- On Sat, 11/28/09, George F Somsel <gfsomsel at yahoo.com>  wrote:


>From: George F Somsel  <gfsomsel at yahoo.com>
>Subject: Re: [B-Greek] best general purpose  lexicon?
>To: "Mark Lightman" <lightmanmark at yahoo.com>, "b-Greek"  
<b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>, "Mike Noel"  <mike at vnoel.com>
>Date: Saturday, November 28, 2009, 1:45  PM
>
>
>I'll challenge you on that.  I open my "Great  Scott" and enter the word I 
want and voila, it appears.  Heh, heh.   The advantage of electronic texts.
> george
>gfsomsel  
>
>
>… search for truth, hear truth, 
>learn truth,  love truth, speak the truth, hold the truth, 
>defend the truth till  death.
>
>
>- Jan Hus
>_________  
>
>
>
>----- Original Message ----
>From: Mark  Lightman <lightmanmark at yahoo.com>
>To: b-Greek  <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>; Mike Noel  <mike at vnoel.com>
>Sent: Sat, November 28, 2009 1:35:11  PM
>Subject: Re: [B-Greek] best general purpose  lexicon?
>
>Once you decide on the LSJ, you then have to decide if  you should get
>the abridged version (the Little Liddell) or the  intermediate version (the
>Middle Liddell) or the unabridged version  (the Great Scott.)
> 
>For rapid reading you cannot beat the  Middle Liddell.  It takes
>roughly twice as much time to FIND the  word in the unabridged
>version, not to mention the extra time it takes  you to read the
>entry.  If you are curious about a word, or if you  keep forgetting
>what it means, look it up it the Great  Scott.  But the Middle will
>nine times out of ten give you  95% of the info.  There are very few
>words not found in the  Middle that are in the Great Scott.
>Also, the Middle quickly refers you  to the root word.  For this
>reason, I prefer it  even to the two lexicons meant specifically for
>Homer.   It also lists some hard forms in alphabetical order.   
> 
> 
>
>Mark  L
>
>
>FWSFOROS MARKOS
>
>--- On Fri, 11/27/09,  Mike Noel <mike at vnoel.com> wrote:
>
>
>From: Mike Noel  <mike at vnoel.com>
>Subject: [B-Greek] best general purpose  lexicon?
>To: "b-Greek" <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
>Date:  Friday, November 27, 2009, 9:49 PM
>
>
>My purpose in  learning Greek is to be able to read it.  That's all.   I
>don't care to do detailed word studies of NT texts.  I want to  be able
>to pick up any ancient Greek text and be able to read it with a  fairly
>good sense of comprehension.   I guess you could  say I aspire to be a
>non-academic Greek reader.
>
>In light  of that, I am looking for a general purpose lexicon that will
>cover the  vast majority of texts.  If possible I would like to avoid
>having  different lexicons for Homer, Xenophon, GNT, LXX, Aesop, etc.
>Is such a  resource available?  For my purposes precise definitions are
>not  as important as just providing the general idea.  I would  expect
>to be able to learn the nuances of new words by reading them  in
>context.  For example, I recently came across the English  word
>"hight".  Never having seen that word before I had no idea  what it
>meant but after seeing it in context a dozen times or so I  started to
>guess its meaning.  Eventually I went to a dictionary  and confirmed my
>basic idea of what the words means.  I would  expect to develop enough
>critical mass in Greek to be able to do that  as well.  A general
>purpose lexicon (or dictionary) should be  sufficient to guide me in
>the right direction for a word and then I  would refine it based on
>usage.
>
>Maybe I'm living in a  fantasy world...
>
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