From: Paul Schmehl (p.l.schmehl@worldnet.att.net)
Date: Wed Jul 25 2001 - 23:32:21 EDT
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From: "Richard Ghilardi" <qodeshlayhvh@juno.com>
To: "Biblical Greek" <b-greek@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Cc: <b-greek@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 9:52 PM
Subject: [b-greek] Re: Grammatical categories and Luke 6:12b
> Dear B-greekers,
>
> On Tue, 24 Jul 2001 15:56:45 -0400 Jonathan Robie writes:
> > Here's a traditional example from Chomsky:
> >
> > Time flies like an arrow.
> > Fruit flies like a banana.
> >
> > The native speaker grasps the meaning, and knows that "flies" works
> > differently in the two sentences, but does not know why. The native
> > speaker of NT Greek could probably grasp the various meanings of the
> > Genitive, without being able to state them or the rules for >
> differentiating them.
>
> [Ghilardi]
>
> The first sentence of course means that those sorts of flies which feed
> on time also favor arrows because, like time, they are swift. The second
> one means this: All fruits navigate the air in pretty much the same way.
> So naturally fruit in general will navigate the air in much the same way
> as any particular fruit, say a banana.
>
> Did I get it right? ;-)
No, but it certainly sounded scholarly. :-)
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