[B-Greek] The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data: An Argument fora Large Corpus Size (i.e., Reading WIdely)

Carl Conrad cwconrad2 at mac.com
Fri Mar 26 10:57:30 EDT 2010


On Mar 26, 2010, at 10:51 AM, nebarry at verizon.net wrote:
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> Original Message:
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> From: Steve Runge srunge at logos.com
> Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 07:43:38 -0700
> To: drdwilkins at verizon.net, yancywsmith at sbcglobal.net,
> b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Re: [B-Greek] The Unreasonable Effectiveness of
> Data:	An	Argument	fora Large Corpus Size (i.e., Reading WIdely)
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>> I realize this is pretty idealistic, but it is my vision and goal
> nonetheless. 
> 
> Steve, amen posts are generally frowned upon, but I thought this very well
> stated.  I found my linguistics courses (including a grad school course in
> Greek historical and comparative linguistics) very helpful.  What you've
> essentially said is that it should be a both/and sort of thing, and with
> that I completely agree.



Running yet further risk of corrugated brows staring me down,
I can only say Amen as well. I have learned more than I will readily
admit from the linguists and I have been frustrated more than I will
readily admit by the categories and explanations of traditional
grammarians. My motto: Ad meliorem linguae Graecae explicationem.


Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)






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