Is his reconstruction of Homeric greek accurate?
For example, this "f" looking letter is pronounced like a strong "w". He says "Peleiadeo" like "Palaueiada" and "Achileos" like "Ahakelauos".
>>25274896>Is such-and-such reconstruction of Greek or Latin accurate?No. These two languages are cursed by the absolute faggotry that resides in universities and colleges in the wider European world. Check out actual academic reconstructions of other ancient languages and then compare. You will be appalled.
mostly seems so I'm only a bit confused about this symbol, not sure what it's meant to be, maybe a iota? Attic era -εω in Πηληϊάδεω comes from ᾱο through metathesis which IIRC should come from an *ājo which was the equivalent for first declension of second declension genitive -οιοso it makes sense with the apostrophe as elision of the oin the video he seems to even use qoppa for the labiovelar that in historical Greek(at least eastern) had turned to tau but still existed, apparently, in Mycenaean, but beyond that and obvious things like the preservation of the long alpha in μᾶνιν I don't know much else
>>25274994I think in the comments of the video he described the symbol as a strong breath soundz from which the latin "H" followed, but I understand nothing of classical philology, so don't quote me on it.
>>25275050mmh maybe he's bringing laryngeals into this, but I have no idea myself how long would those have existed in the development of Greek, afaik those would already have disappeared by then, I'm not even sure about his choice of having ἰφθίμονς, πολλάνς and ψυχάνς, the n sound should indeed have been part of how the accusative plural was like in proto-indo-european but again no idea if it lasted that long in Greek before getting the Latin treatment(n disappears, preceding vowel elongated for compensation)
>>25274896What really is the purpsoe of this altering of the spellings? If you follow Pharr's instruction of pronunciation that's all you really need, we don't need to fuck around with it and change stuff on a whim to imagine what could have been. As long as you actually work to use an accent and enunciate clearly and don't do what Boris Johnson did https://youtu.be/VzJQ0TcBmqU?t=57 and speed through it with English pronunciation, you'll be fine.
>>25275133Because he's interested in linguistics and there used to be a digamma in Greek and iota-subscripts used to be pronounced?
>>25275083(cont.) to be fair though, I actually checked wikipedia's page on Mycenaean Greek and there is a reconstruction of the first line of the poem in Mycenaean, many things do correspond, some don't, after all though, Mycenaean isn't proto-Greek, so someone might want to go further I guess
>>25274896advanced LARPing
>>25274940Give actual examples or shut up.
>>25275192looks like a chill evening if im being honest
