[B-Greek] An Accessible Brief Introduction to Greek Verbal Aspect
Barry H.
nebarry at verizon.net
Thu May 19 17:37:37 EDT 2011
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From: "Barry H." <nebarry at verizon.net>
To: "Randall Buth" <randallbuth at gmail.com>; "B Greek"
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Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2011 5:27 PM
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] An Accessible Brief Introduction to Greek Verbal
Aspect
> This is something Moises Silva used to point out, that you don't need to
> understand the meta-language or the latest linguistic theories to learn a
> language and to use it correctly (he would point out often that the
> instincts of people who knew the languages well was often better than
> their "official" linguistic theories). How many modern speakers of
> English really think in terms of cognitive grammar or linguistics when
> using their own language? Now, I'm not at all saying we shouldn't talk
> about such things – such discussion does have place and value, especially
> when we are discussing historically synchronic languages (sounds better
> than "deal languages," now doesn't it?), simply that you can learn to
> understand ancient Greek and profit from that knowledge, just like the
> generations before people like Porter ever came on the scene...
Apparently my instincts are not so good, though. That should be "were
better" and "dead languages."
N.E. Barry Hofstetter, semper melius Latine sonat...
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