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From: markrose@spss.com (Mark Rosenfelder)
Subject: Re: Age of writing; ancient grammar
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In article <gate.1a0T2c1w165w@bbs.gatecom.com>,
Donald Jones <ddjones@bbs.gatecom.com> wrote:
>I don't know that I can agree on languages being the same today as they
>were in ancient times.  

Has someone claimed that languages are "the same today as they were in
ancient times"?

>Koine Greek of the New Testament period is
>extremely different from the languages I have come in contact with today
>(I am not a linguist, and have had limited contact).  The parsing of
>verbs is one of the basic features of any grammar, and there is little
>similarity between the parsing of verbs in Koine Greek and Modern Greek,
>let alone any other languages.  

How about an example of what about the "parsing" of the verb in Koine Greek
that is not shared in other languages you know (and what those languages are).
