On not knowing greek . . .

something to soothe your inferiority complex, EH.

I quote:

For it is vain and foolish to talk of knowing Greek, since in our ignorance we should be at the bottom of any class of schoolboys, since we do not know how the words sounded, or where precisely we ought to laugh, or how the actors acted, and between this foreign people and ourselves there is not only difference of race and tongue but a tremendous breach of tradition. All the more strange, then, is it that we should wish to know Greek, try to know Greek, feel forever drawn back to Greek, and be forever making up some notion of the meaning of Greek, though from what incongruous odds and ends, with what slight resemblance to the real meaning of Greek, who shall say . . .

Tac, are you motivated by hatred?

hatred? You are a silly, lad, smerky . . . .

Simple question matey.

And the answer is so obviously "no" I didn't think one was expected . . .

Ah thanks, just was wondering.

I wonder if this will stop EH chasing tac around the forum.

Can you bring me up to speed on this whole Ionic Greek business. That'd be great.

G.Wood wrote:I wonder if this will stop EH chasing tac around the forum.

Like Tom and Jerry but without the fun.

DJ_Smerk wrote:

G.Wood wrote:I wonder if this will stop EH chasing tac around the forum.

Like Tom and Jerry but without the fun.

It's kinda funny

But nice analogy - you always know the chasee is too smart for the chaser

Tac will knock me for using a cartoon analogy, no doubt. Left myself wide open for that one.

DJ_Smerk wrote: Left myself wide open for that one.

Funny, that's what his mum always says

Smooth.

If I were Dem, you guys, I'd storm off the forum for you bringing my family into this . . .

Then again, if I were Dem I'd have to fanatsize about dressing up in an SS uniform and spanking Nigel . . . so best forget it . . .

Bah. I've enjoy EH's posts but must part company on this one. If someone wants to show off their knowledge of Greek, more power to them I say. I'm envious. I'd show off too.

Which is not to say that tac isn't a baiter par excellence (showing off my knowledge French here).

Oi Smerky, I'd be careful about speaking of leaving oneself wide open in a Greek thread.

furry, I'm suprised "greek" has come up before this . . . trust you . . . . mmmm, peachy!

I blame the Normans.

before the dementia I think I could write poetry in greek...tac - remind me

are you referring to your kata lepton, h? Not read them and I doubt strongly that you even wrote them . . .

DJ_Smerk wrote:Can you bring me up to speed on this whole Ionic Greek business. That'd be great.

Well we'll never know what Greek tac was talking about but basically the further away from Athens you got the more the language changed. Herodotus grew up in the outer parts of Asia Minor where Ionic Greek was spoken. There's no way you can read Herodotus in the 'original' because his works were translated for a wider audience that spoke Attic Greek, though if you can speak that you can read the original translations. Very few people can speak Attic Greek. I don't know if ionic Greek survived the rise of Rome. (Pretensious i know... wank wank).

"Attic Greek"

Is that what Balloon Boy's father spoke when they found the little brat?

What never wanted to run away from home as a kid when you thought you'd really farked up?

They should have a word to the mad scientist father though about putting home made objects into controlled airspace.

Aye, pack him off to Gitmo

Or put him into orbit in one of his "Popular Model" contraptions.

Bradman wrote:

DJ_Smerk wrote:Can you bring me up to speed on this whole Ionic Greek business. That'd be great.

Well we'll never know what Greek tac was talking about but basically the further away from Athens you got the more the language changed. Herodotus grew up in the outer parts of Asia Minor where Ionic Greek was spoken. There's no way you can read Herodotus in the 'original' because his works were translated for a wider audience that spoke Attic Greek, though if you can speak that you can read the original translations. Very few people can speak Attic Greek. I don't know if ionic Greek survived the rise of Rome. (Pretensious i know... wank wank).

An interesting, yet almost wholly incorrect summary the Greek language. Amazing that you managed to fit so many errors in so short a space . . . .