Greek forum

[Schatzl]

As I understood that, a Greek section or subforum was suggested rather than a
quite different forum with different registration. ​ Are you planning to take
up Greek, too?

Me? no, I was just looking through the forum and this thread caught my eye. then that idea came to me, along with a banner similar to this forum.

 

[Schatzl]

(sorry about the double post) Latin can be confusing enough, but greek? there's a reason I use the expression "it's all Greek to me" a lot more than some of my friends.

 

[Godmy]

In fact the expression probably traces to the ages when the monks in the monasteries in the scriptoria were rewriting the Latin works and sometimes hit upon a Greek phrase (and almost nobody in that time in the Western Europe understood the classical greek) and they just wrote something as "Graeca sunt ergo non leguntur" (but I have no proof the English saying comes from that, but on the other hand... why not).

Edit: I'm not sure this happened everytime in those ages during the copying/rewriting... or maybe just in some monasteries. It is something I've heard from my teacher.

 

[Schatzl]

In fact the expression probably traces to the ages where the monks in the monasteries in the scriptoria were rewriting the Latin works and sometimes hit upon a Greek phrase (and almost nobody that that time in the Western Europe understood the classical greek) and they just wrote something as "Graeca sunt ergo non leguntur" (but I have no proof the English saying comes from that, but on the other hand... why not).

Edit: I'm not sure this happened everytime in those ages during the copying/rewriting... or maybe just in some monasteries. It is something I've heard from my teacher.

About the why not, you're probably right, but still, if it was a teacher that said it then I don't see any reason to say he or she is wrong!