[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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