Re: an announcement...

Transliterated orthographies can be a big deal.  The "right" way to
pronounce ancient Greek words used in an English conversation,
according to some of my professors, was no more nor less than:

Imagine that Greek word was transliterated into Latin the standard
way (alpha-iota=ae, epsilon-iota=i, omicron-iota=oe,
omicron-upsilon=u, and so on), and then pronounced by an
Engish-speaking Latinist would have done before the movement to
restore the ancient pronunciation -- that is, pronounce long e as in
"beet," long i as in "right," long a as in "hate," long o as in
"road," long u as in "cute".  Treat ae and oe diphthongs as long e's.
Be sure to apply the correct Latin (not Greek) accent.

It makes complete historical sense, but to an innocent fellow without
much humanities background encountering Greek for the first time, it
can be a bit daunting to hear one pronunciation -- an accepted vague
approximation of the ancient one -- used in original language texts,
and another used in English.

-----------------------------------------------
Boxcars are pulling an Ed of sorts out of town.
             edheil@postmark.net
-----------------------------------------------

Steg Belsky wrote:

> On Thu, 23 Sep 1999 19:17:07 -0700 Barry Garcia
> <Barry_Garcia@...> writes:
> > dnsulani@internet-zahav.net writes:
> > > What is more interesting, perhaps, is that there are also rules for
> > >writing
> > >words "imported" from another language in Hebew letters without
> > vowels!
>
> > I have always wondered about that! I wonder for instance, how would
> > my
> > name be rendered =)? I find the semitic scripts interesting that you
> > can
> > get away without writing in the vowels and still understand the
> > words.
>
> Probably:
> bet - (alef) - reish - yud
> gimel - (alef) - reish - samekh - yud - hei/alef
>
> There'd probably be those _alef_s in there to mark the As.
> I'm not sure whether an Israeli would use _hei_ or _alef_ to mark the A
> at the end of Garcia....i'd use an alef.
>
>
> -Stephen (Steg)
>  "anxiety is the dizziness of freedom"
>
> ___________________________________________________________________
> Get the Internet just the way you want it.
> Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month!
> Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj.
>