Re: CHAT: barbarisms (was: CHAT: Being both theologically correct etc

At 1:57 am -0400 13/5/01, John Cowan wrote:
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>Well, after all, the Greek derivatives in English, and Greek proper names
>in English, are given Henninian stress:  "A'cropolis", "Alex'ander" (not
>"Alexan'der"), whether Across the Water or not.
But that's simply because we got them from Latin, after the Romans had
borrowed them from Greek.  The Greek for Alexander is 'Alexandros'
/a"leksandros/; co-incidentally, Acropolis is accented in the same place
whether using Henninian or Byzantine oral stress.

>I have never studied Greek, so I don't know what
>pronunciation is taught here, but I bet it's a reconstructed classical one.
I'd guess essentially Erasmian with Byzantine oral stress, which is, I
understand, what one finds in Europe where the modern pronunciaton is not
used.

At least Jesse confirms the Byzantine oral stress bit...
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At 1:18 am -0700 13/5/01, jesse stephen bangs wrote:
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>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.
Excellent  :)

Ray.


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