Re: Greek as a LIVING language - Was: Ancient Greek as a "dead"

Micheal Palmer (mwpalmer@earthlink.net)
Wed, 26 Feb 1997 22:52:07 -0800 (PST)

At 7:23 AM -0200 2/26/97, Isidoros wrote after a rather thorough response
to my last post on the question of Greek as a LIVING language:

>EIRHNH (please!)
>
>Isidoros
>ioniccentre@hol.gr

If my last post seemed to lack EIRHNH, I do appologize. Isidoros has made
some good points in his defense of Modern Greek, and my citation of
conversations with two Greek speakers in the US should not be taken in any
way as disproving any of them. While I have met many Greek speakers here, I
have only had converstations about the relationship of Modern Greek to
koine with two of them, and two make a statistically invalid sample! As
Isidoros pointed out, it may be that both of them spent very little time in
church (I don't think so, but I have no way of checking their past church
attendance :-).

EIRHNH

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Micheal W. Palmer
Religion & Philosophy
Meredith College

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