[Mageia-discuss] [OT] pronounciation

[P. Christeas]

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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