An idea

Greek Learning Greek
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Hey everyone, I just read all the posts, and I would be very interested in lending any help that I can to the project. Do we have enough support to begin a discussion of the structure of the textbook?

Regards,
John

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Hello all,

I just finished my Pharr grammar ebook (for now). I have the raw material in betacode (just the paradigms of the nouns, adjectives, pronouns and the conjugation of luw. I left out everything in parentheses and brackets).

If anyone can make use of this with regard to the plan mentioned in this thread, PM me. I will be on holiday from friday onwards, so no swift replies :slight_smile:

I will be typing the athematic verbs after I return.


Regards,
Adelheid

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Hm, it’s a shame I ignore html, Java or LaTex. I’m hardly trying to understand C++'s basics :blush: But if there is anything I can do, I’m willing to help too.

By the way, I found this Java book in my brother’s bedroom, but it seems it got wet (when the rain comes from the west it’s usual that some water enters by the ceiling to his room). Now a part of the book is yellowish and the pages have lost their shape. Anyone here knows if there’s a way to make them recover their shape? Maybe iron them? :open_mouth:

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I think the idea has died down… :cry:

Can’t help you with your book. I would throw it away and buy a new copy :wink: In fact, that is what I have done with several of my books with a similar problem (I used to live on a houseboat with less than adequate insolation)

Regards,
Adelheid

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I think not… just someone has to give the first visible step, and then others will join :slight_smile:

About the book, well, it’s readable and all, just that I dislike my book to be that way, and I wouldn’t throw away a book for NOTHING. They gave me that book for free after buying something in a library, but books here are an expensive commodity, so it’s not that easy for me to buy new ones… (plus I’m just a student - parent’s money) Thank you anyway :slight_smile:

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I admit it, I am a spoilt brat :blush:

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I think the most useful thing would be to do something like William Harris suggests - taking Greek texts of serious lengths (over 100 lines), and listing beneath each word what its definition and inflection is (perhaps part of the Iliad, the Anabasis, both, or anything else). That is what I do with each Greek text I read. While there is merit to looking up words in a lexicon and absorbing all the subtleties, I do not think that someone trying to get a grip on the language needs to do that excessively.