Cover errors and Greek
James Spinti <[email protected]>
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I was checking a bibliographic reference yesterday because the title seemed a bit strange. The title as listed in the bibliography was Sentence Conjunctions in the Gospel of Matthew: καί, δέ, γάρ, σὖν and Asyndeton in Narrative Discourse, which made no sense, quite aside from the strange diacritics. I checked WorldCat, and sure enough, there were listings, in transliteration: kai, de, gar, sun and Asyndeton…. But, there were also listings that had it as kai, de, gar, oun and Asyndeton…. I was curious where the σὖν might have come from and clicked on the Google Preview button. The cover revealed it all. You can see a screenshot of the cover here: https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fanebooks.blogspot.com%2F2019%2F01%2Fdoes-anybody-who-knows-greek-proofread.html&data=02%7C01%7CCLASSICS-L%40lsv.uky.edu%7C2f133f7f5e9d442dd1ea08d67ef2a998%7C2b30530b69b64457b818481cb53d42ae%7C0%7C0%7C636835978023758239&sdata=lN%2BC2NMkD%2By9y1YdlLh9PHb2k86%2BTqKezfqh%2FI1C1iQ%3D&reserved=0 Obviously no one who reads Greek bothered to check the cover. But I’ve never considered sigma to be that close to omicron in appearance. I’ve run across transliterations where they used a “v” instead of an “n” for nu (that was more than likely a brain blank, knowing the author), but sigma and omicron? James _______________________ James Spinti Proofreading and copyediting of ancient Near Eastern and biblical studies monographs E-mail: jdspinti at gmail dot com Phone: 260-445-3118 1835 South Park St Red Wing MN 55066