Distinguishing Greek and Greek
Doug Ewell
dewell at adelphia.net
Fri Mar 18 04:17:30 CET 2005
John Cowan <cowan at ccil dot org> wrote:
>> There's only one (modern) Greek, but three orthographic variants.
>
> Katharevousa is more than an orthographic variant: it's distinct in
> morphosyntax and lexis as well.
But not a completely different language from "Greek," right? Because
otherwise we should be looking for other ways to tag it.
> (I actually read Jefsey's remark as meaning that the mailing list
> had two Greek-speaking persons, and now 3 or 4!)
You are right. I stand corrected.
-Doug Ewell
Fullerton, California
http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
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