[Foundation-l] Ancient Greek Wikipedia, possible reconsideration

[Mark Williamson]

Exactly. That is huge. I must admit though that I own both the Latin
and Ancient Greek versions of the first book, and while can get a
little bit of Latin from my knowledge of Spanish, I can barely even
read Greek writing, let alone decipher the words.

Mark

On 17/04/2008, Nikola Smolenski <smolensk at eunet.yu> wrote:
> Mark Williamson wrote:
>  > And are you arguing, then, that there is no reading population of
>  > Ancient Greek? If that were the case, there would be no reason for
>  > them to have published Harry Potter in the language - who would read
>  > it? Nobody.
>
>
> Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is sold in more than 10,000,000
>  copies and it has 3,000 reviews on Amazon. Ancient Greek version has
>  five reviews, which means that with the same ratio, it sold in 16,000
>  copies - even if wrong by an order of magnitude, this still shows that a
>  relatively large number of people is interested in Ancient Greek.
>
>
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