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[OM] Re: Greek pickiness [was: some more OT stuff]

Subject: [OM] Re: Greek pickiness [was: some more OT stuff]
From: Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 06:19:51 +0000
I sit here speechless in admiration, Andrew.

That is deeply satisfying in its pickiness, but curiously  
disappointing in that my pickiness was misdirected (not that I made a  
mistake or anything ... ;-)).

Chris

~~ >-)-
C M I Barker
Cambridgeshire, Great Britain.
www.threeshoes.net & homepage.mac.com/zuiko


On 23 Mar 2007, at 23:58, Andrew Fildes wrote:

> Perhaps you should have read down further where they explain that the
> diacritical 'asper' is actually on the iota and is usually dropped
> because the expression exists in modern Greek, where all diacritical
> marks have been dropped.
> Picky enuf for y' ? :-)



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