Re: [tied] Re: Yers

On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, fortuna11111 wrote:

> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Jens Elmegaard Rasmussen
> <jer@...> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, fortuna11111 wrote:
> >
> > > [...] The stress is written explicitly on the first syllable in the
> > > oldest Bulgarian Inscriptions in Greek, so obviously they
> > > reflected the orginal pronunciation of the word by Bulgarians
> > > themselves.
> > [...]
> > >
> > > How will you explain this?
> >
> > How indeed? Is it really true that Greek *inscriptions* noted the
> accent
> > in this case? That is not customary of inscriptional Greek
> which simply
> > leaves the accents and the h'es unwritten.
> >
> > Jens
>
> Jens, these were "inscriptions" or say writings of Bulgarians
> themselves about themselves using the Greek alphabet. I have
> seen pictures of this and I can scan them for you. There are
> stresses over all words there. I have no idea what you are trying
> to imply. Tell me if you want the scan.

No, no, it's perfectly okay if you say it is indeed true. I was surprised
by the word "inscription" and got a suspicion the quoted words might have
been edited. That often happens in the study of Greek dialects which are
basically known fron inscriptions without notation of accents and
aspirations. Words from such sources are not seldom quoted in normal
Greek writing and embellished with accents just to finish the job. It
demanded a direct question to make sure that was not the case here.

Jens