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To: Hootowl
In actual Greek texts from the era when Koine Greek was used as a day-to-day language, Greek was written with no punctuation*.
The words ran together completely, with no spacing or markup.
 Accents, breathing marks, spaces, and other punctuation are added at a much later time, making texts easier to read.
 
 
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Koine_Greek/2
 

 


46 posted on 04/07/2012 7:11:58 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going)
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To: Elsie

Exactly! The placement of the comma in English is arbitrary, and where you put it changes the meaning completely.


49 posted on 04/07/2012 7:27:48 PM PDT by Hootowl
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