[B-Greek] "WRITE, WRITE WRITE' (was "Suggestions Please!")
Barry H.
nebarry at verizon.net
Mon May 30 20:05:29 EDT 2011
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Penner" <kpenner at stfx.ca>
To: "George F Somsel" <gfsomsel at yahoo.com>
Cc: <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, May 30, 2011 3:58 PM
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] "WRITE, WRITE WRITE' (was "Suggestions Please!")
> In response to George's caution below, I might suggest back-translating a
> text into Greek, then comparing what you wrote to the Greek original. I
> did something similar when trying to keep up my Greek and Hebrew over the
> summer: I translated Ruth from Hebrew to Greek, then compared my
> translation to the Septuaginta to see where I had misjudged vocabulary
> equivalences or syntactic structures.
In "Advanced Greek Prose Composition" in grad school, we were given English
translations of Greek authors and asked to retrovert them. My professor
said my translations always reminded him of the GNT!
N.E. Barry Hofstetter, semper melius Latine sonat...
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