Well that’s no good. Program must be buggier than I realized. Sorry now that I recommended it to you. 
No, don’t be. I will use it. I wish I new how it worked. I thought maybe somebody took all the extant greek forms and put them in a file with what form they were. Isn’t that the way Perseus works? But now it looks like somebody actually wrote a program that conjugates the verbs.
Maybe they are Koine forms? Where can I find a good Koine conjugation chart for αιρεω? Is the Koine aorist different from the Attic?
Seems to do a better job with the abridged γίγνομαι, giving in addition to Attic, Doric, Ionic, poetic, and “later.”
How well do you know the Kalos folks Ahab?
Will also try to do a synopsis test, I choose the word Pauw though cause I love it so.
Not very well. Just exchanged a couple of emails with maker of that program. It has been around for many years. First tried the program about 7 or 8 years ago. It was not very good at that time. The interface has improved greatly, but it looks like there are still some underlying problems with it.
Do you have the email? The sales one doesn’t seem to work any longer.
This is the only one I have been able to find: gonzalo_diaz@yahoo.com. Haven’t used it in some time. Still haven’t gotten around to emailing him a message on the problems noted on this thread. Hope it works for you.
Made some mistakes in my synopsis, in the duel and also in some of the imperatives. ALWAYS THE IMPERATIVES!?! TI PRAGMA ESTI TOUTO !?!?!?!
How did the fut. perf. m/p participle(s) go?
Not bad, I’m pretty well drilled in general. I’ll try to scan up my sheets so people can see what mistakes etc I’m making. My hand writing is pretty rough and I can spot a few accentuation errors but shhh.
Feels strange drilling a form that only occurs once. It is in Thucydides. I CAN’T WAIT!
Has anyone used UNICORN.EXE from http://www.quasillum.com/software/unicorn.htm ?
It doesn’t do full paradigms but it’s a neat parser and it’s free.
For example, type in ἔρριφ-ας and you get:
ῥίπτω, ῥίψω, ἔρρῑψα, ἔρρῑφα, ἔρρῑμαι, ἐρρίφθην or ἐρρίφην: throw, hurl, cast aside
ἔρριφ-ας : Verb, perfect, indic, act, 2nd sing
Type in γένησθε and you get:
γίγνομαι or γίνομαι, γενήσομαι, ἐγενόμην, γέγονα, γεγένημαι, -: be born, created, come into being, rise (day), fall (night), arise (storm), become; happen; exist;
γίγνεται it happens;
τα γενόμενα - the things that have happened
γέν-ησθε : Verb, 2nd aorist, subj, mid, 2nd pl (deponent)
κτλ …
Cheers.
Int
Kind of old thread here, but…
I’ve used Kalos almost every day for months. It crashes. It gives wrong forms at times. But it’s the best thing I know of. I’m feeling so grateful, someday I’ll probably send in the money for it.
I just tried Unicorn. Maybe the programming is too old, but it doesn’t work well for me. I wish it did. Being able to spell check polytonic Greek would be brilliant. Maybe there’s a tech savvy person out there who can answer:
- 1. Is the Unicorn programming stable enough to be worthwhile using in the future?
- If yes, then am I right that it would be an easy thing to add massive amounts of words to the dictionary?
The way it looks to me, words could be added in the dictionary very easily if the only purpose was to spell check. The entries wouldn’t have parsing and glosses, but I’m less interested in that than I am in verifying that a) the form I’ve composed exists, and b) I haven’t made spelling mistakes.