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It is always funny to me, seeing someone speaking about the Greek Language as a dead one. Most of these terms are spoken in everyday life in Greece with the sam
by jaharios 3y ago
It is always funny to me, seeing someone speaking about the Greek Language as a dead one.
Most of these terms are spoken in everyday life in Greece with the same meaning.
Old English are way harder to understand for an neo-English speaker than Homer writings, going back 3000 years, are for a neo-Greek speaker. Does this make English a dead language?
Also these terms exist in English in one way or the other, taking time to study a word gives it a lot more deeper meaning that it needs, especially when the word uses changes by time and place. Many of these Classics worshipers can be paralleled with the weird Japanese culture worshipers Weeabos.
- _glass 3y agoone of my pet peeves is to pronounce ancient greek just like modern greek, because that just makes sense. the ancient greek reconstructed pronunciation is just so wrong to do. we have a cultural tradition, continuing with the Roman empire until modernity.
- aduitsis 3y agoTotally, it's actually harder for Greeks that already speak modern Greek to pronounce Ancient Greek using Erasmian pronounciation :).
- denton-scratch 3y agoOld English (or Anglo Saxon) is really a different language from modern English, which was hugely changed by the Norman Conquest. Nobody speaks in Anglo Saxon/Old English, so yes: arguably it's a dead language.
- Name_Chawps 3y agoOld English is somewhat mutually intelligible with Frisian, so may not be totally dead.