Entertainment / Literature / Schema Atticum: This popular grammatical construction appears in ancient Attic Greek (and it is later mimicked in New Testament Greek). It is a specific type of enallage in which a neuter plural subject takes a singular verb (Smith 9). Normally, this construction would be considered a grammatical error in Greek, but if poets, playwrights, or prophets do it intentionally, it becomes high art. The device leads to some interesting translation decisions in modern English editions of the Bible or Greek literature. Should the translator 'normalize' the grammar so it doesn't look odd to English students? Or should the translator bravely insert his own English grammatical 'error' to match the intentional 'error' in the original Greek text? See schema pindarikon, below.
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Entertainment / Literature / Schema Pindarikon: This popular grammatical construction appears in the ancient Attic Greek of Pindar and later in New Testament Greek. It is a type of enallage in which any compound subject takes a singular verb (Smith MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Schema Atticum: This popular grammatical construction appears in ancient Attic Greek (and it is later mimicked in New Testament Greek). It is a specific type of enallage in which a neuter plural subject takes a singu MORE