Re: On the interpretation of the New Testament

From: Jonathan Robie (jwrobie@mindspring.com)
Date: Mon Dec 29 1997 - 10:05:16 EST


At 10:01 PM 12/25/97, Ben Crick wrote:
> When people get arguing about the arthrous/anarthrous use of various
> nouns and noun clauses, I just wonder how on earth the Romans and the
> Russians ever manage to understand the right meaning of anything, when
> they can communicate quite happily without any articles at all! I've no
> idea whether Czech has the article; cognate Russian certainly has not.
 
And of course Greek had no article prior to Homer...

Jonathan
 
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Texcel Research
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