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Ok, I thought you were talking about word endings. Well sure, there are minimal pairs, but most of the time it’s immediately clear from the context, and we hav
by Grustaf 5y ago
Ok, I thought you were talking about word endings.
Well sure, there are minimal pairs, but most of the time it’s immediately clear from the context, and we have to keep in mind that the accents were added much later by modern philologists, so they have de facto been deduced from the context.
But sure, there goldilocks zone where it’s not obvious to the lay reader, but the scholars are pretty certain what it should say, and then it helps. I wouldn’t say it’s a major struggle when reading Greek though.