From: Edgar M. Krentz (emkrentz@mcs.com)
Date: Thu Dec 18 1997 - 16:58:58 EST
>At 11:45 AM -0600 12/17/97, Rick Strelan wrote:
>>Edgar Krentz wrote:
>>
>>>A brief comment on your paragraph below. I recall Saul Levin commenting
>>>that hOUTOS often, in dialogue, had a negative connotation: "This here
>>>[fellow]" and in drama may even have been equivalent to a stage direction:
>>>gesture toward the person indicated. The term does not have to be
>>>derogatory, but can in context. So you might well translate "This here
>>>authority of yours"--said with a particular inflection.
>
>It occurs to me to raise the question--which might not be very easy to
>answer--whether this negative connotation of hOUTOS may either be a
>Latinism or derive support from the Latin use of ISTE.
I wonder, Carl. If this occurs already in the 5th century dramatists (both
tragedy and comedy), then I think it might be too early for Latin influence.
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