http://www.worldaccent.com/blog/2010/05/its-all-greek-to-them.html News, Opinion and word of mouth from the world of language and translation Mon, 06 Feb 2012 07:18:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.worldaccent.com/blog/2010/05/its-all-greek-to-them.html/comment-page-1#comment-25 John Thu, 04 Nov 2010 16:27:43 +0000 http://www.worldaccent.com/blog/?p=92#comment-25 This observation would be rather astute and humorous if it weren't for the fact that "another popular form for the large character Σ in antiquity" looked strikingly like a Latin S (cf. Buth, Randall. Living Koiné Greek, Part One: Ἡ Ἑλληνικὴ Σχολή. 2nd ed. Jerusalem: Biblical Language Center, 2008. p. 144). This observation would be rather astute and humorous if it weren’t for the fact that “another popular form for the large character Σ in antiquity” looked strikingly like a Latin S (cf. Buth, Randall. Living Koiné Greek, Part One: Ἡ Ἑλληνικὴ Σχολή. 2nd ed. Jerusalem: Biblical Language Center, 2008. p. 144).

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