Any comments on this request?

Rebecca

From: Henri de Solages [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Friday, August 06, 2010 6:08 AM
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Subject: Very broad "ancient Greek"

Hello.

I'm very surprised that ancient Greek is considered as one language, covering 2 millennia, having been an international language during several centuries, having undergone serious phonetic modifications (to such a point that I doubt a late ancient Greek would have understood at all an audio record in early ancient Greek), and having lost not only at least one tense (the anterior future) but even a grammatical number (the dual).

If you really want to regard it as one language, then we need another standard to codify things like "Homeric Greek", "Egyptian Greek", "Cappadocian Greek", "Byzantine Greek" etc..

Yours sincerely.