Re: greek pun?

On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, Ed Heil wrote:

> Note that "he tou mikrosophou" is an attributive construction --
> it is preceded by an article; therefore it is "the wisdom of
> microsoft," not "the wisdom is of microsoft.")
I'm inclined to think of it as "the wisdom, that of microsoft", i.e.
"the wisdom of microsoft" ("the" and "that" are very close,
especially in early Christian Greek that this tastes of)

"Mikrosophos" can also be construed as "the little wise man" - a pun
in itself :-)

   Irina

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