Re: Greek flavoring (was: My Apologies about Mysterious sounds)

On Oct 4, 2004, at 7:02 PM, Rodlox wrote:
>> But if the flavor you are after is of ancient Greek, the the
>> inclusion of
>> certain diphthongs is desirable and also one ought to consider
>> whether to
>> include vowel length. I got the feeling - tho I may be wrong - that
>> it was an ancient Greek flavor Rodlox had in mind.
>  *nods*  part of me was thinking "seige of Troy"...part of me was
> thinking "destruction of Second Temple".
>  yeah, a wee bit of time between them.  :)
In terms of time-period or in terms of Greekiness?
If you're talking about the Jewish Second Temple in Jerusalem, that one
was destroyed by the Romans.


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   trust me on this one, if on nothing else."
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