There was a discussion on the Greek board about the possibility of knowing how ancient Greek was pronounced.
The general opinion seems to be that we can get a good idea but we can’t be sure.
Even if we were sure, an ancient Greek wandering into our neighbour-hood would probably not understand us anyway.
To illustrate I’ll tell you what happened when I was reading my son a story.
The story had the word ‘vast’. I didn’t think he would know what vast meant. so I clarified it by saying;
It is the same as huge.
As What?
Huge!
What’s that?
You know, realy big!
Oh, huge.
That’s what I said, huge.
No you said yuge.
Apparently I have pronouncing the first letter wrong all along, and now this little kid had to point it out to me.
I have spoken English almost 3 times as long as he has.
I told him:"Watch who you are correcting buster. Who taughted you to spoke anyway!
