On another forum, there is poster whose use of ancient Greek is, shall we say, creative (that's a a euphemism). Two of us on that forum, both also members of B-Greek, have attempted to engage the individual, but he insists that his idiosyncratic renderings are the best and that of all the participants on the forum, he has best internalized the Greek. He recently gave us this as his rendering of the English "While my friend was eating, it began to rain:
ὁ φίλος μοῦ ἐν τῷ φαγεῖν αὐτὸν, ἤρξατο βρεξαι
That's after a couple of corrections that he did accept. I then suggested that the articular infinitive phrase at the beginning was better rendered:
ἐν τῷ φαγεῖν τὸν φιλὸν... and he insisted that I didn't understand how articular infinitives worked in Greek. Now,you can follow this somewhat unfortunate exchange here:
http://forums.carm.org/vb5/forum/theolo ... anslations
He did, however, say that he would accept the judgment of our own Stephen Carlson. Of course, anyone else feel free to chime in. And the verdict is?
![Shocked :shock:](./images/smilies/icon_eek.gif)
N.E. Barry Hofstetter, M.A., Th.M.
Ph.D. Student U of FL
Instructor of Latin
Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy
καὶ σὺ τὸ σὸν ποιήσεις κἀγὼ τὸ ἐμόν. ἆρον τὸ σὸν καὶ ὕπαγε.