From: Greg Kilbrai (kilbrai@mail.com)
Date: Mon May 08 2000 - 11:35:33 EDT
Greetings. I was wondering about the origin of the punctuation marks in GNT,
and the question mark in particular. I already understand that these were
not in the manuscripts and added later by editors, along with word spacing
and the other punctuation marks.
Most of the punctuation marks seem to conform with those used in the English
language (commas, periods), so I was curious about:
1. the origin of using ";" as a question mark rather than the "?" used in
English.
2. the raised "." used as a semicolon.
Is there any reason why versions of the GNT don't adopt the English
punctuation marks?
I'd appreciate an off-list response if this is too trivial for the main
membership on the list.
Thanks for your help with this.
Greg Kilbrai
______________________________________________
FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com
Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup
---
B-Greek home page: http://sunsite.unc.edu/bgreek
You are currently subscribed to b-greek as: [jwrobie@mindspring.com]
To unsubscribe, forward this message to leave-b-greek-327Q@franklin.oit.unc.edu
To subscribe, send a message to subscribe-b-greek@franklin.oit.unc.edu
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.4 : Sat Apr 20 2002 - 15:36:25 EDT