Agreed.
A.
On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 8:13 PM George C. Tsiagalakis <gts(a)theglider.net>
wrote:
Thanks, but it's not necessarily only a matter of
theology, Suda for
example is a 30.000 entries 9th century byzantine encyclopedia, or even far
before this Plutarch, Strabo, Lucian and plenty others wrote in -an earlier
version of- Koine. I am only mentioning this as the body of texts available
in Koine -for any type of subject- far exceeds the body of available texts
in Attic -due to the much greater time span and geographical coverage-, and
as a consequence there is a lot of scholarly research and study of Koine as
well. As I have been the grc incubator moderator since the past year, I
have noticed a mix of both dialects and preferences in the community when
creating articles. However when it comes to examples of modern usage in
general, the use of Koine indeed seems to be primarily centered around
religious purposes (e.g. Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople).
Kind regards,
George T.
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Subject: Re: [Langcom] Lingua Franca Nova
Local Time: February 8, 2017 1:10 AM
UTC Time: February 8, 2017 1:10 AM
From: abartov(a)wikimedia.org
To: George C. Tsiagalakis <gts(a)theglider.net>et>, Wikimedia Foundation
Language Committee <langcom(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 5:33 AM George C. Tsiagalakis <gts(a)theglider.net>
wrote:
an up to date news website in ancient Greek at
http://www.akwn.net/
<http://www.akwn.net/> that has been going for 10+ years, or the Harry
potter translation at
https://www.amazon.com/Harry-Potter-Philosophers-Ancient-Edition/dp/1582348…,
examples which showcase that the language can certainly be used for
creating new material.
Both of those use Attic Greek, btw, confirming what I said in the other
thread. *IF* a community arises interested in cultivating a grc Wikipedia,
it would be in Attic.
(And yes, of course there is a large contingent of scholars and students
primarily interested in koine rather than Attic, for religious or merely
theological reasons. I should have acknowledged this in my earlier post.)
A.