Gerard,
You’re mistaken.
https://www.amazon.com/Harry-Potter-Philosophers-Stone-Ancient/dp/140886616…
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(a)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.