THE SCIENCE OF LANGUAGE.

Evening Star, Issue 12964, 8 November 1906, Page 2

THE SCIENCE OF LANGUAGE.

to Tiifi innoa. o-r wUo kiniw the nuiivocv in uio 5 ... L v.-lar.ds ahx> know that they have -.-Vu-nvls language?, part icularly in the wes'eui >reaps. Living on the came island, O'dv some fortv or fifty mih-s ap:ut. - thcv ( in'uot <.or.vcitvit.ianally undeistaml each „C..er It i? very gratifying to tho lay mbid to find that modern .scholars who can t ; Uk in 1 1.-htew and Greek aro devoting tUclv 1U- If a! uln-il.uun to analysing kmgiu -c litiii’.u ling the kanakil, axad treating - r pui i li'iuiiUv. is more interest- ) ):c. Bible eiudetit than to read _of t’nu--' elio ate i'i:ii»lovcd in the fascinating or reeersu-ueiing the language of ]>a!<- tint-—.l. lan.ii.'g-' tiiai has almost- died tail aud on which our Gospels are built. When or thinks we are taught through lannitf’e. clarified tc-Klioi' is eiguificant to .veiv c.dlitig in life. Documents 1 ;!• ,ov:nd daily, v.-iittui in the very itliom of tlic Gu:ek Bible. this, of course, j. revoiiittotarv, 1 le.iii'eo tho language of Dan! ami Luke and John was supposed to be a 1.-mguaao without parallel outside the area of Jewish writers. The language used is conver.- itianal. and not- the artificial lau- ; aa „ f of books, which tilt lately was our oa'r source of hi t-ory. Professor Aloaltou (ManelKtiler) tell? n.s that the Greek of to-drv v? a iittial ditHendant o, the \-er-. jucnlar o: the lima century ot our era, which no grammar lan can alford to ignore. Tie toils ns. 100. that the papyrus i-s well w; it ten and correctly sp’lt. ami not in the artificial littra»y style in which the writer would t omtave a ne.uise or poem. —-I am. etc., F.AI. November 5.