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Tue May 3 10:41:24 EDT 2011


that the differences between that and Koine are at least as significant
as that between modern English and Chaucer, and probably much more so.
The one saving grace for members of the Greek Orthodox church is that
much of the liturgy is actually conducted in Koine (or at least
Byzantine) Greek -- so that they are constantly being confronted with
the "archaic" forms of the language, and hence I suspect that EN ARCH HN
hO LOGOS doesn't sound quite as strange to them as, say, "I schop me
into a shroud, as I a scheep were."

Ken Smith

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven Lo Vullo [mailto:slovullo at mac.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 3:49 PM
> To: Biblical Greek
> Cc: Biblical Greek
> Subject: [b-greek] Re: Greek pronunciation?
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> On Tuesday, October 8, 2002, at 12:59 PM, Brian McCarthy wrote:
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> > Another question, which I know would be hard to quantify, but how
hard
> > is
> > it for a modern Greek to read the GNT?  Is it to them (roughly) as
> > Shakespeare is to us, or as Chaucer is to us, or as Beowulf is to
us?
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> A few years ago I was browsing Borders bookshop when I spotted a guy
> with an open GNT (Perschbacher's _Refresh Your Greek_). I walked over
> to him and said, "Do you read Greek?" He turned to me and said, "I AM
> Grrreek!" When I got over my embarrassment, I asked him how much he
> could make out. He said he was having trouble but was able to make
some
> of it out. I don't know if this is typical, just an experience I had.
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> Steven R. Lo Vullo
> Madison, WI
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