[B-Greek] "WRITE, WRITE WRITE' (was "Suggestions Please!")

Carl Conrad cwconrad2 at mac.com
Mon May 30 21:17:38 EDT 2011


On May 30, 2011, at 8:24 PM, George F Somsel wrote:

> 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. 

'Tis said -- is it not? -- that, in the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
I merely add this in the same vein as that we are being put on our guard against
low-flying pigeons.

>  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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> … search for truth, hear truth, 
> learn truth, love truth, speak the truth, hold the truth, 
> defend the truth till death.
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> From: Barry H. <nebarry at verizon.net>
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> 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
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>> 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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Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)





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