[B-Greek] Con Campbell on Interlinears
James Spinti
JSpinti at Eisenbrauns.com
Tue Oct 6 09:02:36 EDT 2009
I saw Con's post and was thinking a nice bonfire was in order. Then I
remembered that most interlinears are electronic now; I don't want to
cause toxic smoke, but perhaps a few electrons should be rearranged?
At the very least, if you must use electronic cheat-tools, turn off the
automatic pop-up so you have to think before the answer appears. I was
appalled when I first started using electronic tools at how quickly I
came to depend on them--even after reading Greek for 25 years. My Greek
got worse, not better because of the auto-parsers.
Another old curmudgeon,
James
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From: b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Carl Conrad
Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 6:41 AM
To: B-Greek
Subject: [B-Greek] Con Campbell on Interlinears
That old curmudgeon Clay Bartholomew once described his posts to B-
Greek as Molotov cocktails stealthily-tossed into the public square to
create a stir. Things have been relatively quiet on B-Greek for a day
or so, wherefore it seems worth noting that Con Campbell, about whose
"Basics of Biblical Greek Verbal Aspect" I have raised some questions
heretofore, has posted a nice remark about interlinears in a blog post
at:
http://readbetterpreachbetter.com/2009/10/06/keep-your-greek-testing-som
e-lines/
= http://turl.ca/tkkf
Says Professor Campbell:
"Just as performing bicep curls without using your biceps is
counterproductive and lame, so too is reading Greek without using your
Greek.
"Instead of using the primary 'muscle group' needed to read Greek-your
memory!-the interlinear allows you to underwork your memory and rely
on the stronger 'muscle group'-the printed English vocabulary sitting
right there under each Greek word.
"So, go ahead and burn that interlinear. Or, at least, give it to
someone you don't like very much."
Of course, there is hardly any danger that we shall be seeing a
bonfire of the interlinears in the near or distant future; things like
that have a long lifespan.
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
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