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Tuesday, December 27, 2022

21st Century Classical Greek -- Summary 6, negatives

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1.                   Negation of verbs coordinates with aspect to produce several effects that translators have failed to capture. Jowett, i...
Tuesday, December 20, 2022

21st Century Classical Greek -- Summary 5, imperatives

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Classical Greek has three types of order-giving. 1.          Indirect, using an auxiliary verb like keleuo . 2.          Indirect using ...
Tuesday, December 13, 2022

21st Century Classical Greek -- Summary 4, gerundives

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Greek does not use a conjugated verb in every phrase or clause. --  Equational sentences can leave out the copula, a feature Greek ...
Tuesday, December 6, 2022

21st Century Classical Greek -- Summary 3, definitions

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Last week I just listed the skeleton for defining verbs. This post gives brief definitions for terms in the verbal system. 1.             ...
Friday, December 2, 2022

Mendel Beilis -- it's always something

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One of the things I learned when I was translating the 1913 trial transcript, was something I brought up in my "murder mystery" ve...
Tuesday, November 29, 2022

21st Century Classical Greek -- Summary 2, strictly verbs

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To recap. I describe the Greek verb system by multiple vectors: 1.                   Aspect 2.                   Voice 3.             ...
Sunday, November 27, 2022

Knitting -- another Norwegian tradition?

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I can't remember how I found the first Valldal pattern I ever saw, but so far I've found five patterns. Most of them are cardigans b...