Sorry, Andrew, should I have put an <IRONY> tag in that message?
:-)
And the point about hoi polloi, surely, is that it was part of
Ancient Greek; I'm sure that it's out of place in modern Greek
culture. But I'm no expert: I learned it when I was about 10 years
old, at prep school, and I took no exams in the subject.
Chris
~~ >-)-
C M I Barker
Cambridgeshire, Great Britain.
www.threeshoes.net & homepage.mac.com/zuiko
On 24 Mar 2007, at 09:00, Andrew Fildes wrote:
> Yes you did - you claimed that the spiritus asper should be on the
> first letter of 'hoi' - whereas it's on the second letter of 'oi'
> because it always goes on the second vowel of the diphthong.
> As in 'oi, oi, oi!' (Totemic Aussie chant). We're 'Oi' experts.
> If you spell it hoi, then you've already expressed the accent, like
> dodging the umlaut in Voigtlaender.
> So there.
>
> And I checked today and Greeks now do pronounce it 'polee' as in
> polee kala (very good).
> But Hoy polee sounds like you're addressing the parrot.
> It's also the root for the prefix 'poly' as in polymer.
>
> Now that's not bad considering I only speak menu Greek and just a few
> useful words of Attic Greek which the waiter certainly doesn't
> understand.
> Andrew Fildes
> afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
> On 24/03/2007, at 5:19 PM, Chris Barker wrote:
>
>> (not that I made a
>> mistake or anything ... ;-)).
>
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