[B-Greek] To what extent do different pronunciation schemes interfere with speaking Greek?

Mark Lightman lightmanmark at yahoo.com
Wed Sep 8 17:44:43 EDT 2010


Hi, Nigel,

My experience coheres with what Randall says.  I am an Erasmian.  When I speak 
Ancient Greek with someone who uses a Buthian PROFORA, I understand them just 
fine.  Occassional a stray word here or there throws me off, but it is much less 
of a factor than one would think.  What I mean is, it's less of a factor than I 
would have thought. 

Mark L 



FWSFOROS MARKOS 




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From: Randall Buth <randallbuth at gmail.com>
To: B Greek <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wed, September 8, 2010 4:31:27 AM
Subject: [B-Greek] To what extent do different pronunciation schemes interfere 
with speaking Greek?

<Could anyone with experience in both advise me on this? Put differently,
should I expect in time to be able to adapt to and converse with someone
who has learned, say, an Erasmian or a reconstructed Attic pronunciation?

Nigel.

XAIREIN

You should be able to converse not only with someone using reconstructed
Attic and the various Erasmians (even 'Οστορτη' dialect). but also with
anyone coming from a modern Greek background, including modern
Greeks. Your ears will track it all.

The biggest obstacle will be communicating with someone who has never
communicated orally in Greek. You cannot expect that to work in any
pronunciation. But your reading will be smoother and more intuitive, and
you will understand most any Greek read from a podium at a scholarly
conference. ('most', because it is frequently misaccented and misread at
the SBLs I attend.) We wish better things for everyone

shana tova
εχοις ετος ευλογημενον EXOIS ETOS EYLOGHMENON
καλοκερια KALOKERIA 'have a good one [season]'
(greeting on mammouth mosaic at Ben Gurion arrivals)

ερρωσο

IWANHS

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