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Re: Comparatives (Difficult?!)

From:Jeff Rollin <jeff.rollin@...>
Date:Thursday, June 7, 2007, 15:37
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 -- "Please understand that there are small European principalities devoted to debating Tcl vs. Perl as a tourist attraction." -- Cameron Laird