Re: Workshops Review #4

From: "Padraic Brown" <elemtilas@...>
Subject: Re: Workshops Review #4


> --- Jan van Steenbergen <ijzeren_jan@...>
> wrote:
>
> > Strange, I you consider how
> > much Latin has inspired people, and how
> > relatively well-known Greek is.
>
> Possibly because it never really went anywhere.
> That is, no neohellenic speaking countries in the
> way we have all the Romance languages. Also, most
> people who are aware of Greek are aware of
> Classical Greek, not Koine; and anyway, it's all
> written foreign. ;) I always thought it (and
> Sanskrit,etc.) should be taught in Roman letters.
> The only people that _really_ need to read the
> native letters are those interested in reading
> texts at first hand. It's kind of unfair that
> only Latin isn't taught in its own script.
You could easily make a case for Greek not being taught in its own script in
the same way.  All the study materials, textbooks, etc. that I've got for
Ancient Greek use the lowercase forms as in Modern Greek.  Greek today uses
very few capitals, less than Roman alphabet languages, so much so that I
can't always remember how to pronounce the capitals - making reading of the
original texts/inscriptions fairly difficult, even when I know all the
words.

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