Re: Comparatives (Difficult?!)

In the last episode, (On Thursday 21 Sivan 5767 13:50:05), Philip Newton
wrote:
> On 6/7/07, Jeff Rollin <jeff.rollin@...> wrote:
> > In the last episode, (On Thursday 21 Sivan 5767 07:53:36), Philip Newton
> >
> > wrote:
> > > the curious ό,τι with comma in the middle. (The only word in
> > > Modern Greek that has it.)
> >
> > You mean there used to be others?
>
> No, I mean precisely what I said: there is only one word in Modern
> Greek that has it, and this is it.
Unfortunately, what you said didn't come over as particularly precise.

>
> To the best of my knowledge, there was never another word in Modern
> Greek that had the hypodiastole (as I think the comma is called in
> this case).
>
> I don't know enough about Ancient Greek to comment about the situation
> there, though I vaguely recall having read that a (small) number of
> similar words took the comma as well. (On the order of half-a-dozen.)
>
That answers my question. TY.

Jeff
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