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Old 12-03-2007, 12:58 PM   #1
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Sorry, if this is a little off track, but I know some of you here will know this. How would an English speaker pronounce this Greek "dissoi logoi".

Don't laugh - Is it like (dis-soy low-go-ee)?

I'm taking a course in rhetorical theory, and this is in reference to contradictory arguments of the sophists.

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loh-goy, like your dis-soy.
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Very carefully, and without spitting on those around you.

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Very carefully, and without spitting on those around you.

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:Cheeky: ahaha
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Just curious: are there any indications that ancient Greeks pronounced doubled consonants differently from those written as single consonants?


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Just curious: are there any indications that ancient Greeks pronounced doubled consonants differently from those written as single consonants?


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Yes. Poetic metre for one. You can read more here.
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