[Mageia-discuss] [OT] pronounciation

Tue Sep 21 21:03:59 CEST 2010

On Tuesday 21 September 2010, Wolfgang Bornath wrote:
+> 2010/9/21 Cassian Braconnnier <ptyxs at free.fr>:
+> > You should say "the right modern greek pronunciation" is Ma-yeé-a, in
+> > ancient greek (whose pronunciation is presumably most world-wide
+> > known...) the pronunciation is assuredly ma-geï-a.
+> 
+> That's what they told me in school when we talked about Homer and
+> Plato and Sokrates and all the other guys with beards who used to live
+> in barrels. :)
+
+(sorry for the off-topic here)
+
+With a little remark there: mp3 had not been invented back at those times, so 
+nobody really knows what Hellenic ("greek"[1] ) sounded back in past. So we 
+presume that modern greek is the closest to the ancient language's 
+pronounciation [2]. It is interesting to search that historically, and there 
+has been many theories (like Erasmus's one, which you mention).
+
+Just a piece of general knowledge.. 
+
+Of course, you may pronounce the word as you wish, since the international 
+term "Mag-ic" and even products like "Maya (tm)" are derived from this word. 
+
+
+
+[1] "greek" is a modern nickname for the language, not the long-standing name
+[2] The "old" language is still spoken in our church. It is the same writting 
+as the A.C. manuscripts, almost the same pronounciation as our modern 
+language. The old language used to be the official until the 1970's.
+
+
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