[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
Sent from my iPhone
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
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> FWSFOROS MARKOS
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