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jamescarvin

USA
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Posted - 04 Jul 2009 :  06:31:21  Show Profile


I am an American who is struggling to learn Koine Greek for Biblical studies and patristics. I am trying to get my keyboard to work right now so I can type in Greek. I could not use the Microsoft language extension technique because it needed my disc and my installation disc drive is broken. I downloaded MultiKey. That gives me a compile error in MS Word so no luck. This is my first attempt to write any Greek using MultiKey over the Internet. Here is a passage I memorized. I can't remember if I have the spelling right.

παρασμοσ υμασ ουκ ελεφεν ει μη ανθροπινοσ πιστοσ δε ο θεοσ ωσ ουκ εασει υμασ περασθινει υπερ ο δυνασται αλλα ποιησει σιν το περεισμου και την εκβασιν του δυνασται υμασ υπινιγκειν.

It worked! That was unicode. Now I've got to figure out how to add in the diacriticals.

Feel free to comment. I'm a beginner. Greek is hard for me. Introduce yourself please!


 

George

Greece
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Posted - 04 Jul 2009 :  14:52:35  Show Profile

 

James, the passage you quote (with many mistakes) is from Paul's 1st epistle to Corinthians (10.13) The text is : πειρασμὸς ὑμᾶς οὐκ εἴληφεν εἰ μὴ ἀνθρώπινος· πιστὸς δὲ ὁ Θεός, ὃς οὐκ ἐάσει ὑμᾶς πειρασθῆναι ὑπὲρ ὃ δύνασθε, ἀλλὰ ποιήσει σὺν τῷ πειρασμῷ καὶ τὴν ἔκβασιν τοῦ δύνασθαι ὑμᾶς ὑπενεγκεῖν.

I wish you the best on your way to learning Greek - you will have many benefits if you go all the way - but even the first step (to remember Cavafy) is not of a small value!

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