To: ealgeone
Yet a native GREEK speaker can read the GREEK texts and translate them.
αμφιβάλλω γι 'αυτό (I doubt that).
google “Can Modern Greeks Understand Ancient Greek? youtube”
Educated Greeks trying to understand an ancient Greek short text
Even a native English speaker struggles to translate the KJV text correctly into modern English. Translation of ancient languages is challenging work.
1,902 posted on
09/06/2023 10:38:02 AM PDT by
af_vet_1981
( The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began)
To: af_vet_1981
Come on, af…..not the failed it’s hard to translate argument.
To: af_vet_1981
Heck; a LOT of Americans are barely able to understand English these days.
1,917 posted on
09/06/2023 3:03:39 PM PDT by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: af_vet_1981
The ‘thees’ and ‘thous’ of King James english vocabulary of the 1600s would surely throw them into a loop.
And don’t even get me started on the English of Shakespearian days, or Middle English, or...
1,918 posted on
09/06/2023 3:05:39 PM PDT by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: af_vet_1981
How about the bebop slang of the 30’ & 40’s??
1,919 posted on
09/06/2023 3:06:16 PM PDT by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
To: af_vet_1981
1,920 posted on
09/06/2023 3:06:44 PM PDT by
Elsie
(Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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