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From: zwicky@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Elizabeth Zwicky)
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Subject: Re: Computers and human languages (was Re: What is a byte)
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Date: Mon, 21-Sep-87 16:17:44 EDT
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In article <183@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> elwell@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Clayton Elwell) writes:
>
>The use of accents and "breathing marks" is a feature of modern Greek,
>not classical Greek.  It developed in parallel with accents in Europe,
>not as a precursor to them.
>-- 
>							      Clayton M. Elwell


Well, that depends on what you call "modern". Call me a quibbler, but
accents and breathing marks are a feature of New Testament Greek, and
have been receding in usefulness since. Even you usually only extend
"modern" back a few hundred years... This would suggest that it was
indeed a precursor.
	Elizabeth