Re: CHAT: barbarisms (was: CHAT: Being both theologically correct and properly modern)

From: "Raymond Brown" <ray.brown@...>
> >I would pronounce it something like this:
> >
> >    [kE sarkoTEnta Ek pnEvmatos aG_ju kE marias tis parTEnu]
> >
> >(with all the accents in Latinate places,
>
> ACH Y FI!
>
> Quasi-modern pronunciation with Henninian stress!  How can you so distort a
> language I love?   ;)
*hangs head in shame* ;p

[schnipf]
> Elsewhere in Europe, however, AFAIK the Byzantine & modern Greek system was
> retained.  I had thought that German influence in classical scholarship had
> ensured that the Henninian pronunciation had not found a foothold on the
> American side of the pond and that the Byzantine oral stress was still used
> there.  Young Muke's email had shattered yet another myth I entertained
> about Americans: so the Henninian barbarism have reached there   <sigh>
Oh, I severely doubt it... I never learnt Greek pronunciation *from* anywhere [I
don't think I've ever heard anyone speak it at all, even].  I just read the
letters what they look like... But the accents, it is a very *strange* system to
me, and they're always where I never expect them (nearly as bad as Russian, but
at least Greek stuff is usually _marked_):  generally I am forced to just ignore
them or tongle my tangue.  ...and that's why it comes out like Latin--simple
incompetence, not willing heresy.


    *Muke!

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