Hi David, I just left a comment on your recent learning vocab video, where I commented about the lack of written accents - alternative orthographical conventions are fine, but you seem not to know where to place the accent on any of the words you say, using instead a sort of penultimate-stress-rule imported from Latin, resulting in a decidely incorrect pronunciation of almost every word, even by the usual Erasmian standards in Anglophone countries. I must say it's appalling, precisely because you are clearly exceedingly erudite and a great teacher, yet at some point in your coursework you were, I assume, guided by professors to do what you are doing here. I have read that centuries ago there was a notion in British academia to remove accents from Greek texts (I have seen such PDF facsimiles), but I thought this practice was long extinct. Could you tell us what's going on here? It's no fun to be criticized by someone on RUclips, so I empathize if you don't feel receptive - nevertheless, I would vehemently exhort you to learn the accents (ideally using the reconstructed pitch accent), because, and I stand by this praise, you are quite evidently an outstanding teacher and are doing great things on RUclips - however, if you cannot accent the right syllable on any given word, the educational content you create becomes worthless. If you would like to discuss further or in private feel free to email me. Εὐτύχει.
Thanks, David! Makes a nice (and much needed) change from the classroom. 🙂
@@fredrutter610 You’re welcome! :)
Besides just being fun, this is so informative
@@Peter-oh3hc I’m glad to hear that! I intend to make more videos like this in the future. Thanks for your comment :)
How can we have all the words for modern things? Or we just learn words that are included in ancient text?
Callixenus of Rhodes (Greek: Καλλίξενος or Καλλίξεινος ὁ Ῥόδιος) mentioned the ῥῑνόκερως.
@@otienuc299 These are words that are found in ancient texts :)
Hi David, I just left a comment on your recent learning vocab video, where I commented about the lack of written accents - alternative orthographical conventions are fine, but you seem not to know where to place the accent on any of the words you say, using instead a sort of penultimate-stress-rule imported from Latin, resulting in a decidely incorrect pronunciation of almost every word, even by the usual Erasmian standards in Anglophone countries. I must say it's appalling, precisely because you are clearly exceedingly erudite and a great teacher, yet at some point in your coursework you were, I assume, guided by professors to do what you are doing here.
I have read that centuries ago there was a notion in British academia to remove accents from Greek texts (I have seen such PDF facsimiles), but I thought this practice was long extinct. Could you tell us what's going on here?
It's no fun to be criticized by someone on RUclips, so I empathize if you don't feel receptive - nevertheless, I would vehemently exhort you to learn the accents (ideally using the reconstructed pitch accent), because, and I stand by this praise, you are quite evidently an outstanding teacher and are doing great things on RUclips - however, if you cannot accent the right syllable on any given word, the educational content you create becomes worthless.
If you would like to discuss further or in private feel free to email me. Εὐτύχει.
i aint reading allat 💀