Christ and greek
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(09-09-2025, 11:47 PM)kathisterima Wrote: something relevant to OP

ancient greek has the unique trait of squeezing the meaning of 3-4 words into one

that makes it particularly hard to read, at school I had to resort to memorizing translation sometimes because the way text was written, even if you knew the etymology of words you couldnt understand it.

for example, the ancient phrase said by leonidas "molon lave" has the literal meaning "after having come here, take (them)"

and yet they somehow squeezed it into two words

would u say this helps with abstract philosophical concepts or not
i find english to be slightly more of a compressed or 'dense' language than mine, and some things are easier to grasp
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Christ and greek - by ΛΟΓΟΣ - 09-09-2025, 11:37 PM
RE: Christ and greek - by kathisterima - 09-09-2025, 11:39 PM
RE: Christ and greek - by ΛΟΓΟΣ - 09-09-2025, 11:40 PM
RE: Christ and greek - by ΛΟΓΟΣ - 09-09-2025, 11:41 PM
RE: Christ and greek - by kathisterima - 09-09-2025, 11:47 PM
RE: Christ and greek - by machinelves - 09-09-2025, 11:52 PM
RE: Christ and greek - by ΛΟΓΟΣ - 09-09-2025, 11:56 PM
RE: Christ and greek - by kathisterima - 10-09-2025, 12:01 AM
RE: Christ and greek - by ΛΟΓΟΣ - 10-09-2025, 12:13 AM
RE: Christ and greek - by kathisterima - 10-09-2025, 12:16 AM
RE: Christ and greek - by Mr Looks - 09-09-2025, 11:53 PM
RE: Christ and greek - by machinelves - 09-09-2025, 11:54 PM
RE: Christ and greek - by machinelves - 10-09-2025, 12:07 AM
RE: Christ and greek - by ΛΟΓΟΣ - 10-09-2025, 12:13 AM
RE: Christ and greek - by ΛΟΓΟΣ - 10-09-2025, 12:19 AM
RE: Christ and greek - by machinelves - 10-09-2025, 01:46 AM

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