[B-Greek] B-Greek Year End Awards

Yancy W Smith yancywsmith at sbcglobal.net
Tue Dec 14 16:17:46 EST 2010


Thanks, Mark, for the nomination/nod. It comes as a pleasant consolation at a critical moment.

Should I frame this email?

Yancy

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On Dec 14, 2010, at 7:44 AM, Mark Lightman <lightmanmark at yahoo.com> wrote:

> B-Greek Year End Awards:
> 
> MOST DISCUSSED TOPIC:  Pedagogy.  
> 
> BEST SUBJECT LINE:  Blue Harris, “Here we go again.” (Luke 22:70)
> 
> MORE HEAT THAN FWS AWARD: Interlinears.
> 
> BEST NICK NAME FOR BROOKE FOSS WESTCOTT:  “The co-Hort.”
> 
> BEST GREEK AUDIO:  Vasile Stancu, LXX Jonah.
> 
> http://www.vasile-stancu.ro/greaca_audio-en.htm 
> 
> Jonah is a particularly good text to listen to because the Hebrew-based syntax 
> is simple and easy to internalize.  Vasile’s reading is dramatic and includes a 
> special sound effect for God’s voice, which really helps in the comprehension. 
> 
> 
> BEST B-GREEK SPIN-OFF:  Louis Sorenson, Schole.
> 
> http://schole.ning.com/
> 
> 
> BEST WRITER OF CONVERSATIONAL ANCIENT GREEK ON SCHOLE NOT NAMED CARL CONRAD:  
> Donald Cobb.
> 
> GREEK VOWEL THAT IS PRONOUNCED IN THE MOST DIFFERENT WAYS:  Eta (η) Six. 1.  a 
> as in bad (Restored Attic.)  2. ay as in bay (North American Erasmian. 3. e as 
> in pet (British Erasmian.) 4. ay as in bay in open syllables, but e as in pet in 
> closed syllables (French and Romanian Erasmian.) 5. ee as in feet (Modern 
> Greek.)  6. n as in not (People who are still learning the alphabet.)
> 
> 2010 CURRENT EVENT MOST OFTEN MENTIONED ON LIST:  The B.P. oil spill.
> 
> BEST ORIGINAL QUOTE:  Barry Hofstetter, “Become your own lexion.”
> 
> BEST ADAPTED QUOTE:  George Somsel. “Context is King,” adapted from the 1858 
> speech of Senator James Hammond of South   Carolina.  “No, you dare not make war 
> on cotton…Cotton is king.”
> 
> George’s dictum should be shouted EPI TWN DWMATWN.  Context is not only King, it 
> is an absolute sovereign, limited by no Parliament, checked by no constitution 
> or grammar or lexicon.  When he was told that the House of Representatives was 
> preparing to impeach him for bombing Cambodia, Richard Nixon said “They can’t 
> impeach me for that.  The President can bomb anyone he wants.”  When it comes to 
> Greek, King Context can do anything it wants.  If you forget everything you have 
> ever read on B-Greek, remember this one thing and you will be fine:  “You dare 
> not make war on King Context.”
> 
> BEST CAMPAIGN SLOGAN IF YOU ARE RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT (OF THE AMERICAN 
> PHILOLOGICAL SOCIETY): “Read my lips.  No new grammatical categories!” 
> 
> 
> MOST READER’S GREEK NEW TESTAMENTS PUBLISHED DURING ONE CALENDAR YEAR: 2010, 
> with three: Zondervan’s combined Greek and Hebrew, VTR’s, based on the Byzantine 
> Text, and UBS’ new one with textual notes. The ratio of Reader’s Greek New 
> Testaments to people who actually READ the Greek New Testament now stands at 10 
> to 9. 
> 
> 
> BEST EXPLANATION FOR WHAT IS REALLY GOING ON WITH GREEK VOICE:  Michel de 
> Montaigne,  “When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing 
> herself with me more than I with her.”
> 
> HIGHEST RECORDED GRONT SCORE:  2 Clement,  Close to the Greek of the NT  9, Easy 
> Greek  8, Good Greek  6, Total  23. 
> 
> 
> LOWEST RECORDED GRONT SCORE:  Linear B Pylos Tablet Ae134, Close to the Greek of 
> the NT  1, Easy Greek  2, Good Greek  0,  Total  3.
> 
> BEST GREEK NEW TESTAMENT PUBLISHED OR OTHERWISE MADE AVAILABLE DURING CALENDAR 
> 2010:  The Vest Pocket Greek New Testament, published in Greece by Apostoliki 
> Diakonia, but made available in the States by Rob Leedy of Bob Jones University 
> Book Store:
> 
> http://www.bjucampusstore.com/ePOS?this_category=136&store=468&item_number=2800840058821&form=shared3%2fgm%2fdetail.html&design=468
> 
> 
> Even the maps are in Greek!  Honorable mention goes to the terrific new SBL GNT 
> by Michael Holmes and Rick Brannan.
> 
> B-GREEK PERSON OF THE YEAR. BEING THE AWARD GIVEN TO THE PERSON WHOSE POSTS WERE 
> OVERALL THE MOST HELPFUL DURING CALENDAR 2010: Yancy Smith.  His posts are 
> always informative and interesting.  Check out his argument that DIKAIOSUNH in 2 
> Peter 1:1 means not righteousness but love. 
> 
> 
> http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/b-greek/2010-April/053295.html
> 
> 
> Yancy also had the best joke of 2010:  “I am not a linguist, nor a son of a 
> linguist.”
> 
> MOST CONSECUTIVE WORDS IN THE GREEK NEW TESTAMENT THAT START WITH THE SAME 
> LETTER:   Romans 13:7b,  seven straight tau’s. ἀπόδοτε πᾶσιν τὰς ὀφειλάς, τῷ τὸν 
> φόρον τὸν φόρον, τῷ τὸ τέλος τὸ τέλος, τῷ τὸν φόβον τὸν φόβον, τῷ τὴν τιμὴν τὴν 
> τιμήν.   …TWi TO TELOS TO TELOS TWi TON…
> 
> THE YOGI BERRA HE’S 100% HALF-RIGHT AWARD:  Carl Conrad,  That when learning 
> Greek, grammar is a necessary evil.  Carl is 100% half right. 
> 
> Mark L
> Φωσφορος 
> 
> 
> FWSFOROS MARKOS
> 
> 
> 
> 
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