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

Muke Tever sikayal:

> > 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
See, I have learned Greek here in Leftpondia and I certainly never learned
any silliness about accenting Greek as Latin.  We follow the Byzantine
system (I think) whereby there are three accents: acute, grave, and
circumflex, all obeying odd and distinctly non-Latinate rules.  Our
teacher even had the decency to mention that they were all originally
pitch accents, but that being tone-deaf Americans we'd pronounce them as
stress.  Still, it's close enough.



Jesse S. Bangs jaspax@u.washington.edu

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