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Re: EN + dative in Eph 5:18
Placet! Students often forget--including this writer--that the taxonomy
of linguistic pheomena is imposed by shcolars. But language does not
fit so neatly into our categories.
I have learned much about English from international students and the
questions they ask:
What is the difference between drinking something up and drinking it
down [since up and down are are opposites]?
Why is English so impolite? The sign says "Park," giving an order. But
I don't want to park.
I find the taxonomy of adverbial participles in ancient Greek a good
example of this. "Attendant circumstance" really is a wastebasket for
all uses of the participle that cannot be otherwise accounted for.
[Rcall that Winston Churchill is supposed to have said that the rule
never to end a sentence with a preposition was "a silly rule, with with
which he would not put."]
Oh well. Incipient Old Age may make onw a curmudgeon, also in
<italic>res grammaticae</italic>.
>How about theory vs. practice? While grammar can be taken to very
>strict limits with rules an theories, often its implementation at the
>user level is less accurately implemented than what we learn from our
>text books. I have encountered this many times as military field
>linguist. For those who are students and professors of Greek,
continue
>the good job with these discussions, but don't forget that human
>language is not rigid, but flexible. We do not with absolutes all
the
>time, but probablies, and possiblies, etc.
>
>Larry A. Hartman
>Defense Language Institute Alumnus
>Department of Arabic Studies
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