Re: Why not modern?
Posted: November 28th, 2015, 7:20 am
As you are hinting at, the question of pronunciation is entirely moot if we always have a text in front of us.
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It's maybe three-fold in answer.This is the key question. I suggest that the best answer is to be understood by those you talk to. (If you're not talking to anyone, well ...)
Paul, I suspect that he did, and if he didn't, I know others who do hold such an opinion. In fact, it is important to use the language outside of known texts. Limiting one's listening to known texts like the NT means that there is always a "memory shadow" involved in the listening or reading or whatever, and the learner only breaks into a situation with great difficulty, if at all, where they fully engage and track a communication in the language itself and at the speed of speech.As you are hinting at, the question of pronunciation is entirely moot if we always have a text in front of us.
Uh, no I didn't.RandallButh wrote:Paul, I suspect that he did, and if he didn't, I know others who do hold such an opinion.As you are hinting at, the question of pronunciation is entirely moot if we always have a text in front of us.