[B-Greek] Adding accents
Randall Buth
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Wed Feb 17 09:22:15 EST 2010
>Ruth,
>
>Would there be a benefit, in your way of thinking, if all of us eliminated accents in our writings? If nothing else, it will return us to the Hellenistic language accent system, the system used by the writers of the NT. The ancients had to distinguish between an EIS and a hEIS, an O from a hO, right? It seems intuitively right to me to write the same way the biblical writers did. It will force us to think more so like a Koine Greek speaker/writer. What are your thoughts?
>
>Eddie Mishoe
I like the way that you are thinking.
It is, of course, exactly the way first century readers had to read texts.
One could always add, though it is unnecessary for the logic of Eddie's
argument, that many of those "sounds" weren't even heard or pronouced
by first century users.
And it is exactly why writing letters without accents makes sense. It also
reminds one of wherever internalization may be incomplete. If one doesn't
know on which syllable to accent a word, it means that further work is
necessary.
ERRWSQE
Randall Buth
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