{"id":1024,"date":"2009-09-30T17:08:01","date_gmt":"2009-10-01T00:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=1024"},"modified":"2009-09-30T17:24:47","modified_gmt":"2009-10-01T00:24:47","slug":"ha-ha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=1024","title":{"rendered":"Fun with False Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m finding my study of Attic Greek also helping a lot to get back into Koine.  Shortly after reading some <a href=\"http:\/\/evepheso.wordpress.com\/2009\/09\/28\/language-change\/\">discussions<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/hellenisteukontos.blogspot.com\/2009\/09\/greek-diglossia-and-how-it-isnt.html\">diglossia in modern Greece<\/a>, I was reading the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Didache\">Didache<\/a>, and came across the following conclusive proof-text:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00cf\u20ac\u00ce\u00b1\u00ce\u00b3\u00e1\u00bd\u00b6\u00cf\u201a \u00ce\u00b3\u00e1\u00bd\u00b0\u00cf\u0081 \u00ce\u00b8\u00ce\u00b1\u00ce\u00bd\u00e1\u00bd\u00b1\u00cf\u201e\u00ce\u00bf\u00cf\u2026 \u00e1\u00bc\u00a1 \u00ce\u00b4\u00ce\u00b9\u00ce\u00b3\u00ce\u00bb\u00cf\u2030\u00cf\u0192\u00cf\u0192\u00e1\u00bd\u00b7\u00ce\u00b1<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There you have it.  Diglossia is a deadly snare :-)<\/p>\n<p>Update: even better:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00cf\u201e\u00e1\u00bd\u00b3\u00ce\u00ba\u00ce\u00bd\u00ce\u00bf\u00ce\u00bd \u00ce\u00bc\u00ce\u00bf\u00cf\u2026, \u00ce\u00bc\u00e1\u00bd\u00b4 \u00ce\u00b3\u00e1\u00bd\u00b7\u00ce\u00bd\u00ce\u00bf\u00cf\u2026 &#8230; \u00ce\u00bc\u00ce\u00b1\u00ce\u00b8\u00ce\u00b7\u00ce\u00bc\u00ce\u00b1\u00cf\u201e\u00ce\u00b9\u00ce\u00ba\u00e1\u00bd\u00b8\u00cf\u201a &#8230; \u00ce\u00b5\u00ce\u00ba \u00ce\u00b3\u00e1\u00bd\u00b0\u00cf\u0081 \u00cf\u201e\u00ce\u00bf\u00e1\u00bd\u00bb\u00cf\u201e\u00cf\u2030\u00ce\u00bd \u00e1\u00bc\u0081\u00cf\u20ac\u00e1\u00bd\u00b1\u00ce\u00bd\u00cf\u201e\u00cf\u2030\u00ce\u00bd \u00ce\u00b5\u00e1\u00bc\u00b0\u00ce\u00b4\u00cf\u2030\u00ce\u00bb\u00ce\u00bf\u00ce\u00bb\u00ce\u00b1\u00cf\u201e\u00cf\u0081\u00e1\u00bd\u00b7\u00ce\u00b1 \u00ce\u00b3\u00ce\u00b5\u00ce\u00bd\u00ce\u00bd\u00e1\u00be\u00b6\u00cf\u201e\u00ce\u00b1\u00ce\u00b9<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;My child, do not become &#8230; a mathematician &#8230; for from all that comes idolatry.&#8221;  Could have used that advice before I went to university!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m finding my study of Attic Greek also helping a lot to get back into Koine. Shortly after reading some discussions of diglossia in modern Greece, I was reading the Didache, and came across the following conclusive proof-text: \u00cf\u20ac\u00ce\u00b1\u00ce\u00b3\u00e1\u00bd\u00b6\u00cf\u201a \u00ce\u00b3\u00e1\u00bd\u00b0\u00cf\u0081 \u00ce\u00b8\u00ce\u00b1\u00ce\u00bd\u00e1\u00bd\u00b1\u00cf\u201e\u00ce\u00bf\u00cf\u2026 \u00e1\u00bc\u00a1 \u00ce\u00b4\u00ce\u00b9\u00ce\u00b3\u00ce\u00bb\u00cf\u2030\u00cf\u0192\u00cf\u0192\u00e1\u00bd\u00b7\u00ce\u00b1 There you have it. Diglossia is a deadly snare :-) Update: even &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=1024\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fun with False Friends&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[139],"class_list":["post-1024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","category-linguistics","tag-greek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1024"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1032,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1024\/revisions\/1032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}