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I just finished watching a couple of episodes of Seinfeld and seven shots of sake-I’m now on my 8th. I drank the first seven warm, but this one I’m drinking cold. I like to think of myself as being akin to Ms. Ichinose in Rumiko Takahashi’s Maison Ikkoku, when, after Ms. Ichinose pours the Maison tenants shots of warm sake, she says ‘I prefer mine from the bottle.’
I’m using flashcards to try and memorizing the entire Greek alphabet. (Hey, alpha and beta are easy!). So far I’m doing ok, but I was surprised to find that the similarities between the Greek and English alphabet don’t make the letters any easier to memorize. In fact, it almost makes it more difficult, because some Greek letters look identical to English characters, but they don’t have the same phonetic characteristics…
For instance:
The lowercase letter for the Greek equivalent to our letter N is nu, which reads (ν)
And of course nu looks almost identical to our lowercase letter v. But the capital of nu reads (Ν), just like our uppercase letter N.
And if that isn’t enough-the Greek equivalent to our letter H, which is called eta, reads, in its lowercase form, almost like our lowercase letter n (η)-but the capital still reads like an uppercase letter H and it still retains the same sound as our letter H-unless it is changed in certain circumstances but a diacritic (of which I still know very little because I am so new a student to the language).
I’m also memorizing a handful of nouns and other words, a few being:
θεός (Theos, or God)
θάνατος (Thanatos, or War)
and
ἥλιος (Helios, or sun)
I was extremely terrified of Greek at first, but I’m getting the hang of it.
Anyways, I’d write more if I could, but instead-I’ll just take another drink.
I’m using flashcards to try and memorizing the entire Greek alphabet. (Hey, alpha and beta are easy!). So far I’m doing ok, but I was surprised to find that the similarities between the Greek and English alphabet don’t make the letters any easier to memorize. In fact, it almost makes it more difficult, because some Greek letters look identical to English characters, but they don’t have the same phonetic characteristics…
For instance:
The lowercase letter for the Greek equivalent to our letter N is nu, which reads (ν)
And of course nu looks almost identical to our lowercase letter v. But the capital of nu reads (Ν), just like our uppercase letter N.
And if that isn’t enough-the Greek equivalent to our letter H, which is called eta, reads, in its lowercase form, almost like our lowercase letter n (η)-but the capital still reads like an uppercase letter H and it still retains the same sound as our letter H-unless it is changed in certain circumstances but a diacritic (of which I still know very little because I am so new a student to the language).
I’m also memorizing a handful of nouns and other words, a few being:
θεός (Theos, or God)
θάνατος (Thanatos, or War)
and
ἥλιος (Helios, or sun)
I was extremely terrified of Greek at first, but I’m getting the hang of it.
Anyways, I’d write more if I could, but instead-I’ll just take another drink.