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In a message dated 6/4/01 1:41:08 PM EST, Apollo@MLink.net writes:
<< I hate to be OT, but Modern Greek is closer to ancient Greek than Latin is
to
the Romance languages. Greek has undergone myriad alterations from classical
times (as classical Greek has from archaic/heroic times), but remarkably
retained many linguistic characters from its past despite foreign adoptions
and
the natural course of its evolution. >>
So modern Greek >is< the same species as ancient Greek...or no? My knowledge
of Greek is strictly pedestrian.
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