Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/12/15

[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]

Subject: [Leica] How do you spell Emblepo in Greek?
From: sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter)
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 07:44:16 -0600
References: <4C8C54BA-8BF1-415C-8F36-17272AD83E04@yahoo.co.uk> <AANLkTi=p7noU1KV4XYOVCcD=-=qHM=eA9CGoD1USmyY5@mail.gmail.com>

Thanks to you guys.  I think I finally may have satisfied myself and also
the pickers of nits in Greek that pop up from time to time.  (I never would
have thought it)

I made a minor change in the header that makes sense to me.

http://sonc.com/look/





On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 3:26 AM, Daniel Ridings <daniel at dlridings.se> 
wrote:

> I've looked. I can judge this. I have a PhD in Greek.
>
> Sonny's site is perfectly correct.
>
> The only thing missing are the accents and the breathing marks, but
> the ancient greeks didn't write them either, so it's no big deal. (We
> know, not because we have original manuscripts to show it, but because
> we have ancient inscriptions, that is, the original writing in stone).
>
> Sonny uses the inflected for as a title for the site and uses the
> dictionary form (first person singular in the present) to define it.
>
> By the way, Peter, you transcribed Sonny's site incorrectly. He
> doesn't write "enablepsen", but "eneblepsen", the correct form.
>
> Daniel
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Peter Cheyne
> <geordiepete211 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > Hi Sonny,
> >
> > your website spells it as 'enablepsen'.  'Emblepo' should be ???????.
> >  Literally, it means "I look at".
> >
> > Best wishes,
> >
> > Peter Cheyne
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Leica Users Group.
> > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information
>
> _______________________________________________
> Leica Users Group.
> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information
>



-- 
Regards,

Sonny
http://sonc.com/look/
Natchitoches, Louisiana

USA


Replies: Reply from daniel at dlridings.se (Daniel Ridings) ([Leica] How do you spell Emblepo in Greek?)
Reply from john.nebel at csdco.com (John Nebel) ([Leica] How do you spell Emblepo in Greek?)
In reply to: Message from geordiepete211 at yahoo.co.uk (Peter Cheyne) ([Leica] How do you spell Emblepo in Greek?)
Message from daniel at dlridings.se (Daniel Ridings) ([Leica] How do you spell Emblepo in Greek?)