Wesley Huff
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I mean, he's doing it himself. Yeah. Self-teaching. Yeah. I self-taught myself Greek at first, and then when I started learning it formally, I realized how much you miss when you self-teach yourself.
I mean, he's doing it himself. Yeah. Self-teaching. Yeah. I self-taught myself Greek at first, and then when I started learning it formally, I realized how much you miss when you self-teach yourself.
I mean, he's doing it himself. Yeah. Self-teaching. Yeah. I self-taught myself Greek at first, and then when I started learning it formally, I realized how much you miss when you self-teach yourself.
Oh, you can take it at any graduate college.
Oh, you can take it at any graduate college.
Oh, you can take it at any graduate college.
Yeah. I mean, this is the big debate with ancient languages. Like same thing with, yeah, arguably we don't know how any of this was pronounced. Right. I mean, modern Greek speakers get really mad at me when I say that because they're like, of course we know how it's pronounced. It's pronounced like we pronounce it. Right.
Yeah. I mean, this is the big debate with ancient languages. Like same thing with, yeah, arguably we don't know how any of this was pronounced. Right. I mean, modern Greek speakers get really mad at me when I say that because they're like, of course we know how it's pronounced. It's pronounced like we pronounce it. Right.
Yeah. I mean, this is the big debate with ancient languages. Like same thing with, yeah, arguably we don't know how any of this was pronounced. Right. I mean, modern Greek speakers get really mad at me when I say that because they're like, of course we know how it's pronounced. It's pronounced like we pronounce it. Right.
And on all my videos where I'm like site translating Greek manuscripts, there's so many comments of modern Greek speakers getting mad at how I'm pronouncing things. But realistically, yeah, we don't really know how most of the things are pronounced with anything.
And on all my videos where I'm like site translating Greek manuscripts, there's so many comments of modern Greek speakers getting mad at how I'm pronouncing things. But realistically, yeah, we don't really know how most of the things are pronounced with anything.
And on all my videos where I'm like site translating Greek manuscripts, there's so many comments of modern Greek speakers getting mad at how I'm pronouncing things. But realistically, yeah, we don't really know how most of the things are pronounced with anything.
Yeah. Well, Sumerian's a wild one because it's a language isolate. So Hebrew is an Afro-Semitic language. So Hebrew is related to all of these other languages like Aramaic and Akkadian. language isolates have no adjacent comparisons. So, because I tried to teach myself Sumerian and I failed and I just gave up because I couldn't do it because I had nothing to really compare it to.