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one 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
by _glass 3y ago
one 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 :).