IS CLASSICAL GREEK
Really So IRregular ?
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So a few times a year I like to review basic Greek and I did a Google search to see what people thought was the most difficult aspect of learning Classical Greek and after understanding the Alphabet the other problem that came up several times was "IRREGULAR" forms?
Yes Greek has more suffixes and morphs than English.
Yes you have to learn Moods and Cases and Conjugations and Genitive and Declensions
but think for a moment!
Is Greek really that much worse than English?
Greek has less homophones.
Even so called irregular verbs follow common patterns.
You say the verb to be?
Look again at English. Modern English forms of the verb TO BE fuses two different Old English Germanic verbs wesan and beon and then goes and uses other verbs that once had different meanings like should and would and could to express conditionals and a change of spoken tone can make a statement like "you should be reading" into an Imperative an Exhortation or a Question?
So the Greek Subjunctive Mood is that much worse?
Is it such a terrible thing that phrases like the The Good Book and the Good Woman use two different forms of THE and have case endings?
