At 11:23 PM -0500 1/8/99, Jonathan Robie wrote: >At 07:52 AM 1/8/99 +0100, JŸrg Buchegger wrote: > >>And I say to that: Thank you very much, Jonathan. > >Sure thing. Anybody is welcome to post to B-Greek in their native language, >and sometimes it's really hard to translate certain kinds of things into >English. Most of the time, someone else can translate if someone asks for a >translation. > >>Perhaps there are others out here in the international public of B-Greek >>still wondering and trying to figure out what IMHO, for example, and >>other obscure "english words" (or is it Greek? :-)) do mean. > >Edward has already responded. I should point out that about a year ago, >someone suggested perhaps we should say EMOI instead of IMHO on B-Greek ;-> I think this came out of a comment of mine on the "ethic" dative; IMHO, a more appropriate Greek form of IMHO might be more like ALLOIS MEN ALLA DOKEI, EMOI DE ... -- making it clear that one's opinion IS humble and that one recognizes the legitimacy of other views for other people. Carl W. Conrad Department of Classics/Washington University One Brookings Drive/St. Louis, MO, USA 63130/(314) 935-4018 Home: 7222 Colgate Ave./St. Louis, MO 63130/(314) 726-5649 cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu OR cconrad@yancey.main.nc.us WWW: http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~cwconrad/ --- B-Greek home page: http://sunsite.unc.edu/bgreek You are currently subscribed to b-greek as: [cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu] To unsubscribe, forward this message to leave-b-greek-329W@franklin.oit.unc.edu To subscribe, send a message to subscribe-b-greek@franklin.oit.unc.edu