10-23-2007, 04:58 PM
Quote:I'm talking about the origin of the word for the ancients,too.The meaning.
I don't have linguistic evidence.The byzantine hymns,however,a language just between modern and ancient greek,and closer to the hellenistic language,have the same pronunciation of letters as the modern greek.This,as an opposition to all those supporting the Erasmian system,pnonouncing all the letters as would be read in latin.
Khaire
Giannis
But Latin transliteration is much more chronologically relevant to our understanding of ancient Greek linguistics than later Byzantine language, and no such pronunciation is to be found when you compare Greek and Latin.
Ruben
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian