[B-Greek] "WRITE, WRITE WRITE' (was "Suggestions Please!")
George F Somsel
gfsomsel at yahoo.com
Mon May 30 20:24:32 EDT 2011
That sounds like a workable scenario. When one simply attempts to carry on some
kind of conversation without having a knowledgeable mentor to check the results,
I think that is like the blind leading the blind. In your schema, however,
there is a standard by which the translation can be checked -- also, I wouldn't
discount the value of your professor in the process.
george
gfsomsel
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From: Barry H. <nebarry at verizon.net>
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Sent: Mon, May 30, 2011 5:05:29 PM
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] "WRITE, WRITE WRITE' (was "Suggestions Please!")
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From: "Ken Penner" <kpenner at stfx.ca>
To: "George F Somsel" <gfsomsel at yahoo.com>
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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...
Classics and Bible Instructor, TAA
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(2010 Salvatori Excellence in Education Winner)
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