Ok, if I am wrong, forgive me. I made the conclusion and it sounded logical. Well, to answer you, the wrong continues because those who know it is wrong, don't do anything about it, or, if they do, are publicly hushed out as betrayers, soldouts, traitors, etc.
I read andra mi enepe mousa polytropon as well, and was a bit dumbfounded by it, as I had read why it shouldn't read like that so I asked my teacher. She told me that Erasmian accent was just an unproven theory. WELL THAT TO ME SOUNDS MORE LIKE THAT THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION IS JUST A THEORY, but I couldn't get anything else out of her. I was taught the "real" pronounciation because the one who taught me happened to be my mother. A philologist hereself much like the ones who taught you" ANDRA MI ENEPE...etc". I suppose what the Uni prof. teach theese days is much PRO ERASMIAN than anything that happened when my mother was a student there.
-Erasmian is not supported in Greece because it falls in the "Just another theory" category, not the "established fact" category. In fact everyone who speaks out against "established fact" is treated almost like an outcast. I can't mention names right now. It has been YEARS since I last spoke with Uni Profs about that. And to be frank, I wouldn't give those names if I had them. This notion that anyone accepting ERASMIAN accent is a traitor is a bit disturbing and, well, if you need to point at someone
point at me. The buck stops here.
Sorry can't help you there. There WASN'T one. where we modern Greeks have... B(V), X, Φ, Ψ, Ξ, the ancients had B (as in Bulldog), K+h, P+h, P+s, K+s. Justme on another post reminded me of a theory that ancient Makedonians, spoke their Greek a bit differently, using Φ as your V, and quoting Φερενίκη as being written like that in Attic Greek (whereas it is known that Verenike is what the Makedonians called her) but still that is ambiguous at the least. Makedonian greek had some different sounds, but our knowledge of them is very limited. We know too much about Attic Greek, and not nearly enough about all the other dialects of the time, Dorian Greek and its' subdialects Hepirotan Greek, Makedonian Greek, even Spartan Greek.
The ones not accepting Erasmian accent point to examples like the one above, claiming it has gaps. It does. It tries to make ancient greek words sound like the sounds they made 2278+ years ago. It isn't easy, and there were
So the basic question is this... Do you like more a big huge neon sign with "OUZO, MOUZAKA, ROOMS TO LET, RENT A DUCK" or an ancient statue, with all its little timemarks and possibly cut nose and ears, even head, that would make you wander what was...? I, would choose the statue. Because like Kolokotronis said "Γι' αυτά πολεμήσαμεν". I don't have a monopoly on truth, far from it. However, until, some better theory comes along I have to stick with the logic theorem constructed by scientists for hundreds of years now, in which ancient greek, its use and soudn fall under a unified theory.
That ancients spoke what they wrote, and wrote as they spoke. Until changed by Hellenistic Koine that is. You can check for more info on wikipedia, if you want.
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