New Pharr group looking for members.

[Diane]

@mingshey

Congrats for the new Pharr group!

Is it going to be named pharr-c group and referred a “farsi” group? I’m just curious. :roll:

farseers?

[Bert]

@Diane

@mingshey

Congrats for the new Pharr group!

Is it going to be named pharr-c group and referred a “farsi” group? I’m just curious.

farseers?

I like that. A group of pharrseers sure sounds a lot better than the pharrsee group.

[GlottalGreekGeek]

1 lesson a week, eh? I managed to get through the entirety of Pharr, composition excercises and all, in slightly over three months, after one month of White and not other Greek experience. Slightly less than a lesson a day. However, I am younger than most people at this forum, good with langauges, and immaturely impatient. Even so, I was tired by the end.

Is there any chance of there being a group devoted to ιλιαδος β in the foreseeable (or pharrseeable) future?

[Adelheid]

@GlottalGreekGeek

1 lesson a week, eh? I managed to get through the entirety of Pharr, composition excercises and all, in slightly over three months, after one month of White and not other Greek experience. Slightly less than a lesson a day.

I (a Pharr-b member) find English to Greek the most taxing (even with 5 years of high school Greek and at least 3 years of reading Greek at university under my belt, but never having been trained in translating into Greek). How did you manage that on your own? Without the Pharr guides I would be rather lost there.


Regards,
Adelheid

[GlottalGreekGeek]

If it had been composition excercises from nowhere, I would not have been able to do it. But since all the excercises and the Iliad text were generally similar, I could usually check one against the other to see that I was at least close, and the vocabulary was right in my face (usually vocabulary is my difficulty in composition in foreign languages). Granted, I must have made plenty of mistakes, but my goal was not perfection, I could still make sense of the Illiad Greek, and I believe most of my excercises must have been close. And I was too impatient to wait for somebody to check it all before moving on - probably unwise, but I do not regret it.

I managed to find one of my old Greek > English excercises, from Lesson 48. I’m not proofing it, just typing, and not bothering to type in accents.

1. εξερεομεν τε και ομοσομεθα μεγαν ὁρκον.
2. ναι μα το σκηπτρον, ου νεητε οικαδε σοα, ενθα δε ομνυσεσθε παντες.
3. ημα σκηπτρα ου ποτε φυσουσι πυλλα και οζους, ουδ αναθηλησουσι, επει λελοιπαν τομας εν ορεσσι.
4. ὑιες αχαιων χαλκῳ ελεψαν σκηπτρα περι φυλλα τε και οζους, νυν δε ανακτες δικασπολοι, οἱ ειρυονται θεμιστας προς διος, φορεουσι τα εν παλαμῃς.

Looking at it now, there is one mistake I see, but I’ll let the wiser ones judge my Greek from a few months back.

[Paul]

Hi Pharrseers:

I have PMed each of you your GTSS userid/password.

Please let me know if you have not received them.

I count the following members:

yhevhe
psilord
michael (fournier)
shirley (JuliaP)
diane
andy (A_M_P)
ornellas

Did I miss anyone?

Thanks.

Cordially,

Paul

[Timotheus]

I would like to be in too!!!

just waiting for my email reply

[Diane]

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[mingshey]

@Diane

@mingshey

Congrats for the new Pharr group!

Is it going to be named pharr-c group and referred a “farsi” group? I’m just curious.

farseers?

Then the Pharr-b-ers would be farbeers? That’s odd but I like it, heh.

[Paul]

@Diane

I seem to be too ancient to function here. In several respects.

For one thing I am 65 years old and have no Greek background whatsoever.

But a much bigger problem is that I am using an ancient Windows 98 SE with Internet Explorer 5.50 and you were right, it doesn’t work. As a matter of fact it went into a complete tizzy.

How much of this needs to be done on the computer?

Hi Diane,

GTSS and Windows 98 will work fine together. What you need is IE6. Can you either get it for yourself or have someone help you download and install it?

Pretty much everything is done on computer. However, if the guides are willing to make an exception, perhaps some accomodation can be reached. But I would urge you to install IE6.

Cordially,

Paul

[JuliaP]

@mingshey

Then the Pharr-b-ers would be farbeers? That’s odd but I like it, heh.

or maybe, “Pharr-b-its”

Phrases, Sayings and Idioms Home > Phrase Dictionary - Meanings and Origins > Far be it from me
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/134125.html

[GlottalGreekGeek]

@Diane

For one thing I am 65 years old and have no Greek background whatsoever.

Don’t let it get you down. My father is close to your age, and he recently started studying Japanese. His progress is slow, but at least he is getting progress, and considering his good health and all but retired status, he will have plenty of time to move at his own pace.

[Diane]

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[Diane]

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[Yhevhe]

I have IE 6 and can check my hotmail through Outlook Express

I don’t know about this other configuration, but I think if you install IE 6 it will keep the same config. as the previous IE installed.

[annis]

Pharr-c is now full.

[Diane]

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[Yhevhe]

I can’t really remember for how long I have had IE6… But I don’t see why you wouldn’t be able to check your e-mails through OE even if the account is new.

[Diane]

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[Yhevhe]

Well, you are right Diane. I’ve just set up a new account to see this, and I couldn’t open it from OE. My old account opens perfectly. And yes, it seems that it only works if you configured your OE before compatibility ended. So… I wouldn’t do anything being you.

Right now I’m using Firefox 1.0.4, and there is an [u]extension[/u] that lets you block Flash ads. Maybe that could help?