The reason for the title on the previous post is that my head is currently full of greek. bah! But as i've quickly found, it would be a whole lot easier if I actually knew english grammar...and i'm still searching for a decent "alphabet song" to put the greek alphabet to. It's just not the same learning an alphabet without a song.
The average nerd level in the class is quite high. Many people particuarly people who have come from doing MAP in NSW have already been learning greek (which I don't quite understand...dont they have enough 'hands-on' things for them to do?) so most people already know the stuff i'm just learning.
I'm still waiting for someone to show off by saying the greek alphabet in reverse. That will be the icing on the cake :-)
Well i should probably go and learn some vocab before we head to tea. Jodie's mum has shouted us tea out which we're really looking forward to. We're trying our second thai restaurant on king street (there are MANY of them!) called thai potong. If i remeber the camera we'll fill you in on details...
and just for interest:
Apparently this is how it all looked on papyrus... and below is the equivalent in english (with the letters in all caps and no spaces/punctuation). It was surprising actually...you can pretty easily decode the english!
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Aha! There is some justice in the world! Take comfort in the fact that, having learnt Greek, you will soon understand English so much better!
Did anyone else notice the relationship between greek and geek? Perhaps when those NSW MAP students get clever, you could recall(in Christian love) that those who love gReek r geeks!
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