[B-Greek] future indicative in Jonah 1:11 (Joseph Justiss)
Carl Conrad
cwconrad2 at mac.com
Fri May 20 06:05:41 EDT 2011
On May 20, 2011, at 1:02 AM, John Sanders wrote:
> I first wish to make a confession here, I have procured and studied Dr.
> Buth’s “living Greek” and I have procured, but only scanned his “living
> Hebrew”. I would recommend Dr. Buth’s program whole heartedly.
>
> I always enjoy Dr. Buth’s remarks and find his insight to be very
> instructive. Likewise I see Jeremy Spencer’s remarks also instructive.
>
> But….
>
> This “but” is not in contra against either one of them, but questions the
> relevance to the specific question at hand.
>
> I have an acquaintance, this acquaintance is Chinese by nationality and by
> first language. She also is fluent in English. She is reading Turgenev’s
> “Fathers and Sons” in Chinese, also using an English version. Even though
> what she is reading is “translationese”, it is Chinese. She understands the
> passages from the Chinese patterns, not from the Russian original and how
> that original was transformed into Chinese is irrelevant to her (similar
> with the English version).
>
> Translations have to stand on the merits of the language it is written
> in. What
> Dr. Buth and Jeremy Spencer have written are wonderful asides, useful and
> enjoyable very useful in an essay on translation history or techniques or
> such as that. But in understanding the Greek text, it is not germane. The
> Greek text needs to stand on its own feet and be understood in terms of
> Greek.
>
> At least that is how I would view answering the question posed.
> John Sanders
> Suzhou, China
Εὖγε, ὦ ἄριστε!
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
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