Gerard,
You’re mistaken.
https://www.amazon.com/Harry-Potter-Philosophers-Stone-Ancient/dp/1408866161...
There are learners and readers and writers of Ancient Greek who do not just want to “understand old documents"
On 7 Feb 2017, at 05:36, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi, The point of teaching GRC is to help understand the old documents in GRC. As it is not a living language the point is that students learn it as it was. Innovation is therefore counter to the objective of teaching the language. Compare this to Latin; the same applies but it has always been spoken / used in the Roman Catholic church so it is a language where documents can be found in Latin that are from many later centuries and it does have this history of innovation.