[B-Greek] Semantic Space (was Charts of Forms should be real words)

George F Somsel gfsomsel at yahoo.com
Sun Sep 27 10:13:08 EDT 2009


I really don't know why one feels the necessity to designate something as a "central semantic space."  It may sound more scholarly in that it is more obscure than the simple statement that a word is "familiar" or "known."  I generally operate on the principle that, if you can't explain something in simple terms which almost anyone can understand, you don't really understand it yourself.  
 george
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----- Original Message ----
From: Mark Lightman <lightmanmark at yahoo.com>
To: B Greek <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>; Randall Buth <randallbuth at gmail.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 26, 2009 9:42:22 AM
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Semantic Space (was Charts of Forms should be real words)


Randall egrapse:
 
<For me, the main concern is to cover 'central semantic space' in a
language and then to branch out into special areas. I listed the
above because I think that a basic reader of 1st century Greek NT
needs to have these words in their 'semantic space' in their brains
and to be able to network with them (i.e. to use the items in
communication so that it is a language that is sitting in the brain.)
then we can read the GNT with understanding and feeling like when
we read any piece of literature in any language.>



      



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