[B-Greek] Adding accents

Vasile STANCU stancu at mail.dnttm.ro
Wed Feb 17 10:48:33 EST 2010


My thoughts are as follows:

- 'The ancients had to distinguish' -> 'The ancients did naturally distinguish';
- 'It seems intuitively right to me to write the same way the biblical writers did' -> 'It seems intuitively right to me to first get the knowledge/culture the biblical writers had, and then, just as a natural consequence, to be prompted to write the same way they did - when I am practicing the language for myself, of course, for when I am teacher to others, I should adopt the stand that those who invented to accents did, so that the good tradition be perpatuated';
- 'It will force us to think more so like a Koine Greek speaker/writer' -> 'It will naturally lead us to think more so like a Koine Greek speaker/writer'.

Eliminating accents would be, in my opinion, like refusing some of the tools provided to us by those of the old ages who intended that later generations be able to use the language as close as possible to the way as they did.

Vasile


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From: b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org [mailto:b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Eddie Mishoe
Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 4:02 PM
To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org; Ruth Mathys
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Adding accents

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
      
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