Language
The Patrologist has been quiet lately because he's in Mongolia teaching Ephesians in Greek. It's really a test of one's linguistic competencies to explain the intricacies of Pauline grammar and theology in a third language while your notes are in your first. But it
Language
You know, at the end of last week I put up that youtube video with an invitation to come and learn some Latin with me through CKI. I knew before I posted it that there would be errors, because I know that anytime I speak in a non-native language
Language
I’ve been trying to figure out how to write about this for a while, and I don’t think I’ve got it worked out yet. Firstly, what’s the gap between literal and figurative language? Literal language is generally thought of as ‘according to the proper meaning of
Updates
Apparently I didn't write a March edition? Probably because I spent the end of February madly trying to complete a paper and several grant applications. It’s really a daunting discipline to write monthly updates like this. it makes me aware of how painfully slow progress can be!
Language
It’s not infrequently that I get asked a version of the first question. It happened a week or so ago, a girl in my research office casually started conversation with, “So, how many language do you speak?” My reaction varies a little based on the question, or more precisely
Philology
The first thing an interpreter needs to do is to examine the text under consideration in order to establish the text. We call this the work of Textual Criticism. Next, the interpreter must read the work. This involves understanding the correct phrasing of the text, and if necessary making decisions
Greek
In this post I want to talk about why I think learning accents for Ancient Greek is important, and shouldn't be put off. The Case Against First, let's consider a case against accents. In Duff, "The Elements of New Testament Greek", we are given
Greek
I mean, the answer is kind of simple. You edit and reprint them. If you’re the author. I’ve had occasion this week to consult what Mounce, that most widely used Greek textbook, says about aspect. Similarly, I also dipped into Duff. Now Duff is unfortunately a revision of
Language
Okay, Let’s look at Learning with Texts, and how to get set up and going with it. A lot of information in this post is totally derived from this post over at DIY Classics. I 100% tell you to go and read that post. My aim is to supplement
Greek
Recently I’ve been thinking and reading more about the middle voice. It was first occasioned by some by-the-way comments in Aubrey’s thesis, p204-6. There he gives a typological table derived from Kemmer. Also, in some email exchange, he suggested I check out R.J. Allen’
Language
So, particularly if you’ve come from a Greek/Latin/Classics background, most of what one is taught is how to do a lot of intensive reading. Intensive reading involves talking relatively small segments of texts and analysing, grammatically, each word and segment, mentally parsing and tagging things, and then
Gaelic
I was having a chat the other day to someone about differences between Gàidhlig (Scottish Gaelic) and Gaeilge (Irish Gaelic), and also some of the issues with the grammar introduction sequencing in Duolingo. Duolingo, as far as I can tell, built its core model tree on mapping English to the