[B-Greek] SIKELOS OMFAKIZETAI What kind of middle?
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jgibson000 at comcast.net
Tue Jan 4 21:07:11 EST 2011
On 1/4/2011 7:46 PM, Mark Lightman wrote:
> Vasile wrote
>
> <As an alternative method of study, why not study other
> languages (that are currently spoken) like Romanian, where there are
> three voices, active, passive and reflexive. The latter one is very
> much similar to the Greek middle.>
>
> Hi, Vasile,
>
> You raise a legitimate methodological question, one about which people of good
> will are likely to disagree. I think it was Wittengstein who said about
> languages "he who knows one knows none."
Goethe, I believe.
Jeffrey
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