From: Ken Smith (kens@180solutions.com)
Date: Thu May 17 2001 - 17:31:19 EDT
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>Out of curiosity, why do you consider the modern Greek pronunciation to be easier than the Erasmian? I grant that since it is connected to a living language, those who use it because of their connection to that language will probably have a much more fluent, "life-like" accent than those (like myself) for whom Greek (alas!) remains primarily a matter of reading NT texts. But I don't see how it's "easier". Indeed, because so many different vowels and diphthongs are pronounced identically (hOI=OI=hH=H=Hi=U=I=AI, etc.), I frequently find it rather confusing. Eventually you get used to it, and you're able to tell from context whether "tees eemerees" is "of the day" (THS hHMERHS)or "in the days" (TAIS hHMERAIS), but it certainly seems to call for more discrimination and skill than the same phrase read in the Erasmian pronunciation.</FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>Ken Smith</FONT>
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<BR><FONT SIZE=2>From: Sam Johnson [<A HREF="mailto:jfamily5@prodigy.net">mailto:jfamily5@prodigy.net</A>] </FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2001 2:00 PM</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>To: Biblical Greek</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Cc: buthfam@compuserve.com</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Subject: [b-greek] Speaking greek</FONT>
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<P><FONT SIZE=2>I have done quite a bit of research on this and the evidence points to modern Greek being the closest to Koine. Robertson mentions this in his grammer and even makes a claim that the Greek spoken today is closer to the Koine in spite of the time span. </FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>My greek teacher who was from Athens loved to tell the story about his mother who could read his New Testament even though she only knew modern Greek. I have learned the pronunciation of modern Greek and it is much easier than using the erasmusian. I hope many of you will consider learning modern Greek pronunciation. I have communicated with a well known Greek scholar and he told me "that modern Greek comes as close to any model we have for how it was actually pronounced in ancient times". </FONT></P>
<P><FONT SIZE=2>In His Grip,</FONT>
<BR><FONT SIZE=2>Sam Johnson</FONT>
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