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by Shirley Rollinson
March 14th, 2014, 12:00 am
Forum: New Testament
Topic: Future Aorist Rev 21:3
Replies: 13
Views: 2009

Re: Let's call it an a priori assumption to make things more

Stephen Hughes wrote:Rather than discuss the temporalisation of our perception of reality on a forum devoted to Greek, it might be slicing the Gorgon's knot . . . . .
Gordian.
The Gorgons were the ladies with snaky hair :-)
by Shirley Rollinson
March 10th, 2014, 4:19 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: The perceived authority, role and difficulty of Greek
Replies: 29
Views: 6719

Re: The perceived authority, role and difficulty of Greek

I used to keep a file full of quotations about the value of studying Greek. It’s full of great quotations from Wesley, Luther, Goethe, David Allan Black, ktl. I don’t use it much anymore because I don’t need to. In my experience, multi-lingual people understand the reason for learning biblical lang...
by Shirley Rollinson
March 7th, 2014, 5:02 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: The perceived authority, role and difficulty of Greek
Replies: 29
Views: 6719

Re: The perceived authority, role and difficulty of Greek

As someone who taught Chemistry, Physics, Molecular Biology (and some Math) for many years longer than I've taught Greek (and a bit of Hebrew) - what makes learning these subjects "difficult" is having teachers who tell the students that they are difficult. Probably because the teachers t...
by Shirley Rollinson
March 6th, 2014, 1:55 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: The perceived authority, role and difficulty of Greek
Replies: 29
Views: 6719

Re: The perceived authority, role and difficulty of Greek

The fact of the matter is that a lot of people find learning languages really difficult, like learning math. For me, it's highly enjoyable, but for many, language learning is a chore. As someone who taught Chemistry, Physics, Molecular Biology (and some Math) for many years longer than I've taught ...
by Shirley Rollinson
March 5th, 2014, 8:46 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: The perceived authority, role and difficulty of Greek
Replies: 29
Views: 6719

Re: The perceived authority, role and difficulty of Greek

The fact of the matter is that a lot of people find learning languages really difficult, like learning math. For me, it's highly enjoyable, but for many, language learning is a chore. It really doesn't help that Greek classes are not only taught using the grammar-translation method, but not even fo...
by Shirley Rollinson
March 4th, 2014, 7:47 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: The perceived authority, role and difficulty of Greek
Replies: 29
Views: 6719

Re: The perceived authority, role and difficulty of Greek

As one who started Greek in seminary - too often it seems that whoever is the lowest on the faculty totem-pole gets the job of teaching "Beginning Greek" - whether or not hse is capable or interested. My first Greek professor was heard to say that he knew "how the Christian felt when ...
by Shirley Rollinson
March 4th, 2014, 2:50 pm
Forum: Other
Topic: The perceived authority, role and difficulty of Greek
Replies: 29
Views: 6719

Re: Perceived authority, role and difficulty Greek

Stephen, you are opening not one but two cans of worms at the same time. Both of them have had some airing over the years in this electronic community; perhaps they should be split, if this/these discussion(s) are to proceed: (1) What do we think -- how do we feel -- about preachers elucidating a G...
by Shirley Rollinson
March 3rd, 2014, 5:22 pm
Forum: Introductions
Topic: Shalom
Replies: 25
Views: 5489

Re: Shalom

Hi, - - -snip snip - - - . It is very difficult for me to learn other languages because I haven't quite got to grips with all the english grammar, and yes I have speaking english all my life lol. School wasn't my strong point because my concentration isn't always the best. I have learned a little o...
by Shirley Rollinson
February 28th, 2014, 2:23 pm
Forum: What does this text mean?
Topic: Rev 19:7
Replies: 21
Views: 5235

Re: Rev 19:7

English speakers are surprised by the arbitrary gender of nouns in so many languages. - - -snip snip - - - To continue with the German genders: a tree is male, its buds are female, its leaves are neuter; horses are sexless, dogs are male, cats are female -- tomcats included, of course; a person's m...
by Shirley Rollinson
February 27th, 2014, 5:04 pm
Forum: Syntax and Grammar
Topic: Why are there 6 principal parts instead of only 5?
Replies: 43
Views: 11320

Re: Good enough (and a game for learning principal parts)

But what will you be teaching? This is a good question, though forgive me for being off topic. Alan, I am also curious about what you are intending/wanting/thinking about doing and what your motives are for desiring to do so. You seem to have no qualms denigrating a system that has at the very leas...

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