[B-Greek] Top Ten Things that B-Greekers will be giving up this year for Lent

Mark Lightman lightmanmark at yahoo.com
Fri Feb 12 23:38:13 EST 2010


Top Ten Things that B-Greekers will
be giving up this year for Lent
 
10.  Interlinears.
9.   Finding the main verb first.
8.   Lurking on V-Sanskrit.
7.   Three words:  College Basketball...ουχι!  OUCI
6.   Using the subjunctive instead of the optative after a secondary tense.
5.   Regarding #8 above, "V" is for "Vedic."  The Vedas are
     sort of the Hindu Bible.  Biblical Greek, Vedic Sanskrit.
     Get it?  Yes?  No?
4.   When you tell people that you are reading Greek, and they say to you
      “It’s all Greek to me,” not making enough of an effort to conceal the
       sarcasm in your voice when you say in response:  “Wow, that’s really
       funny.  That’s the first time I’ve heard that one.”
3.   Just to be clear about #8 above.  This is a joke.  As far as
      I know, there is no V-Sanskrit, although there probably is a
      list similar to ours for Sanskrit students.  But what do you guys
      think of the argument that Sanskrit is the second most important 
     language for Biblical Greekers to learn, after Hebrew?  I suppose
     Aramaic and Latin have a case.  If your Greek is fairly good, would
     that make learning Sanskrit much easier?  I'm told that Vedic syntax
     has some similarities to Homeric Greek.  I would like to see for myself.
     Also, I wonder how V-Sanskriters deal with living language issues.
     Do they argue about the value of learning Modern Hindi?  Do they fight over
     pronunciation?  Are there any V-Sanskriters lurking on our list
     right now?  Is learning a little Sanskrit a dangerous thing for B-Greekers?
     If someone was studying Sanskrit and they wanted to learn
     a little Greek, say just the alphabet and look through a few grammars and
     make note of all the cognates from PIE, would you tell them that learning a
     little Greek is a dangerous thing?  If not, why is it a dangerous thing for
     preachers?
2   Smooth breathings.
 
And the number one thing that B-Greekers will be giving up this year for
Lent:
 
1.  Our New Year's Resolutions! 
  
Mark L
Φωσφορος

FWSFOROS MARKOS


      


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