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by Eeli Kaikkonen
September 6th, 2025, 9:42 am
Forum: Introductions
Topic: Introduction - Is teaching Greek based on a fraud?
Replies: 7
Views: 41574

Re: Introduction - Is teaching Greek based on a fraud?

You are absolutely right about the distinction between learning vocabulary and learning grammar in Greek. I was wondering: in your experience, at what stage of learning should learners focus more on grammar (morphology) than vocabulary? And is there a method to make lemma recognition more natural? ...
by Eeli Kaikkonen
September 5th, 2025, 3:17 pm
Forum: Beginners Forum
Topic: Struggling with John 3:8 phrase
Replies: 3
Views: 103967

Re: Struggling with John 3:8 phrase

I believe it's the word order which is confusing here. In English it's not natural to say "The wind wherever wants blows". Maybe you could stretch English and say "The wind -- wherever it wants to, it blows". But in Koine Greek we can say S τὸ πνεῦμα + ὅπου θέλει V πνεῖ. Semantic...
by Eeli Kaikkonen
August 26th, 2025, 1:47 pm
Forum: Unicode and Fonts
Topic: Cardo rhos fixed
Replies: 4
Views: 706147

Re: Cardo rhos fixed

I haven't been active here for a while, so I just saw the latest post. Sorry, I didn't find the file anymore. I have also totally forgotten how I fixed it. If you want to try, you can download the google font (or the same font from some other source) and open the .ttf file with FontForge. The applic...
by Eeli Kaikkonen
August 25th, 2025, 1:50 pm
Forum: What does this text mean?
Topic: G2863 - κομάω in the context of 1 Corinthians 11:2-16
Replies: 1
Views: 26614

Re: G2863 - κομάω in the context of 1 Corinthians 11:2-16

Answers to numbered questions. 1. Yes, but if you are even semi-serious with Greek, you should at least learn to find it yourself in some online of offline Bible reading application, for PC or mobile phone. There are many of them, free, with Greek parsing. 2. It's not correct. It doesn't "stres...
by Eeli Kaikkonen
August 25th, 2025, 12:15 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: How much is Many? Numerics of polys πολύς...
Replies: 3
Views: 97815

Re: How much is Many? Numerics of polys πολύς...

In human languages in general negatives are sometimes notoriously difficult to understand. What exactly is negated, and what is the result? In this case, too, knowing what the word πολύς means in itself doesn't help much; it just means "many", "much" etc. It's not a number any mo...
by Eeli Kaikkonen
August 11th, 2025, 3:25 am
Forum: Introductions
Topic: Introduction - Is teaching Greek based on a fraud?
Replies: 7
Views: 41574

Re: Introduction - Is teaching Greek based on a fraud?

At best, it misleads. At worst, perhaps, it could actually be considered fraudulent. If you suspected you might be kicked out, why did you use that one word which has very strong and even aggressive meaning? Did you really consider as real possibility that all Ancient Greek teachers are liars? Othe...
by Eeli Kaikkonen
April 18th, 2025, 8:54 am
Forum: Other
Topic: σουδάριον in John 20.7
Replies: 9
Views: 75287

Re: σουδάριον in John 20.7

If I have understood the words correctly, then 1. It's χωρὶς which creates the translation "separate" (contra Jean above). 2. The difference may come from how χωρὶς ἐντετυλιγμένον is interpreted. It could be possible to take it as tightly connected, χωρὶς ἐντετυλιγμένον = folded to be sepa...
by Eeli Kaikkonen
January 5th, 2025, 7:32 am
Forum: Vocabulary
Topic: Miscellaneous vocabulary questions
Replies: 3
Views: 67724

Re: Miscellaneous vocabulary questions

A suggestion to Jonathan: while you use and cite an answering bot, could you show us the questions you fed to it, too? AI chat is a new thing and not everyone can use them, so it might be useful to show how to get relevant information from them. A suggestion to Gladys: at least some of your question...
by Eeli Kaikkonen
December 24th, 2024, 6:52 am
Forum: What does this text mean?
Topic: G1096 Ginomai - meaning of the word
Replies: 7
Views: 55822

Re: G1096 Ginomai - meaning of the word

To add to what Jonathan said -- Words get their meanings in the contexts in which they are used. On and the same word can "mean" different thing in different contexts. Even a detailed dictionary or lexicon can't exhaust all possible nuanced meanings, let alone pragmatic nuances or connotat...

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