Interesting!!!
Mr. Timothy T. Dickens (ttd3@columbia.edu)
Mon, 20 Jan 1997 15:07:47 -0500 (EST)
At 09:18 PM 1/20/97 -0200, Isidoros wrote:
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>> There is a factor here that might influence but which is not being
>>considered. On most layouts of the computer keyboard for writing Greek - at
>>least here in North America - the epsilon is adjacent to the omega whereas
>>the rho is separated from the theta by two intervening keys. If the book in
>>question was set up on a computer, or done on a typewriter or a composer
>>that employs this keyboard layout HQWTHSAN written for HQETHSAN might be the
>>more probable mistake.
>>
>>David L. Moore
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>Thanks for the thought, David.
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>Maybe. Though I think the difference, if any remaining, may not be
>found in the letter placement of any typing keyboards (mine, by the
>way, a standard one for Mac, has the epsilon adjacent to the rho, a
>distance from omega) or, in this context, of said miss-taken letters.
>Carl and I are I think by now in relative agreement, in respect of
>each other's positions--and of the fact that it was only by chance,
>though perhaps of the probabilistic, scientific, variety, that the
>word proposed first "happened" to had been the "correct" one.
>What may be of importance for all, I hope, is gained sense out of this
>for an even deeper appreciation of the uniquely special relationship
>between grammar and language.
>
>Isidoros
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>The Ionic Centre, Athens ioniccentre@hol.gr
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>TTD: Dear Isidoros,
I have been watching this discussion about parsing for two days now.
I have learned something regarding the assumptions made about etymology and
grammar. I think you are right, . . ."out of this [discussion has come]. .
. an even deeper appreciation of the uniquely special relationship between
grammar and language."
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isolationism often seen in traditional classics--or more precisely in
studies of Greek civilization--with its emphasis on the events of a
relatively short period, primarily in a particular exemplar of a single
group of cultures. Studies that appear to see fifth-century B.C.E Athens as
the defining experience of all civilization puzzle those whose interest lie
in other areas of the Mediterranean antiquity, and still more those
concerned with other regions of the world.
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