Re: CHAT: Multi-Lingos

callanish wrote:

> > Actually, philosophy of religion was quite, quite interesting. We
> > had a Greek who laughed at us trying to pronounce the Greek
> > gods' names, and....
>
> OK, I'll grant that although the phonology of modern Greek has changed quite
> significantly from that of Ancient Greek, it's still probably closer (and
> more "authentic") than our method of pronouncing Ancient Greek as if it were
> English!
Well, most schools don't use the old pronunciation that acts as if
Greek went through the Great Vowel Shift (where <nous> = /n&us/).
Most today use either the Erasmean system or the newly reconstructed
one with a distinction between aspirated and unaspirated stops.

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Tom Wier   |     "Cogito ergo sum, sed credo ergo ero."
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