[B-Greek] Accent marks in ancient Greek

George F Somsel gfsomsel at yahoo.com
Sat Sep 11 19:51:02 EDT 2010


I'm sorry to hear about your nephew's involvement in the accident and will 
keep him in my thoughts.

You must, however, remember that modern Greek accentuation is not the same as 
the ancient method.  Of course, many tend to treat the accents of koine and 
classical as though they were the modern stress accent, but that doesn't make it 
authentic.  I personally don't pay much attention to the accents except 
when copying a piece of text (supposing that I can't simply copy and paste), but 
I would nevertheless miss them were they not present.  I do have some texts 
which are unaccented, and, while I have no trouble reading them, they simply 
don't look right so I suppose I would agree with Barry.

 george
gfsomsel 


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From: Sarah Madden <sarah.r.madden at gmail.com>
To: Barry H. <nebarry at verizon.net>
Cc: B-Greek List mail to all <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Sat, September 11, 2010 3:04:02 PM
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Accent marks in ancient Greek

Hi, Barry --
I like your "objective" take on the accent question. In addition, if you
read accented text correctly, it starts to sound more like the real language
it is. A Greek person once told me that pronouncing the accents correcly is
important in modern Greek. It also helps with memorizing vocabulary words
since you only memorize one form of the word. Just a thought.

Sarah
P.S. My 21-year-old nephew was in a horrific bus accident this morning near
Syracus, NY. Any prayers or thoughts would be most appreciated. His jaw and
orbital area are broken/fractured but I don't have full information yet.
Here's the link to the article:
http://www.9wsyr.com/news/local/story/Four-dead-after-Megabus-hits-Parkway-bridge/LiNwgSPQkkyL0gzAwfLlJg.cspx


On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 5:50 PM, Barry H. <nebarry at verizon.net> wrote:

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> Sent: Saturday, September 11, 2010 2:01 PM
> Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Accent marks in ancient Greek
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>
>
> I think you can, Paul, both in typing and in speaking.  I see no draw back
>> to
>> doing so.
>>
>
> I like accents.  They're fun.  I think we should keep them.
>
> Why?
>
> Because I like them, and they're fun.
>
> How's that for subjective postmodern circularity?
>
>
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